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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jdsmith@as.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version'
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:52:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HqVif-0001Ey-1q@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87abvyt3hm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 21 May 2007 14:51:01 -0400)

    An analogy can be drawn to the Debian apt system.

Debian doesn't need to get copyright assignments before packaging a
program; we do need them, before we distribute a program in Emacs.
That changes everything.

In addition, Debian normally expects to find its own maintainers
for its own version of the program.  We want the developer of
the Lisp program to keep maintaining it as part of Emacs.

That makes two ways in which we need or want the developer's continued
cooperation.

If we were to help the users and the Lisp program developers bypass
us, we would be creating unnecessary difficulties for our efforts.  It
would be a mistake.  Our goal is not simply to make the users as happy
as possible in the short term.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-22 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 146+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-09 19:56 CVS is the `released version' Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-09 19:59 ` Thomas Hühn
2007-05-10  2:00   ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-10  6:03     ` Thomas Hühn
2007-05-10 11:43       ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-10 11:47         ` David Kastrup
2007-05-10  6:58     ` David Kastrup
2007-05-10 11:58       ` Andrea Russo
2007-05-10 12:34         ` Thomas Hühn
2007-05-09 20:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-10  2:18 ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-10 18:24 ` Ken Manheimer
2007-05-10 19:05   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-11 18:48     ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-11 20:19       ` joakim
2007-05-12 16:47         ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-12 20:26           ` joakim
2007-05-13  8:49           ` Ryan Yeske
2007-05-13  9:38             ` David Kastrup
2007-05-13 11:28               ` Ralf Angeli
2007-05-13 12:53                 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-14  1:43               ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-14  8:09             ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-14 15:19               ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-14 18:29               ` Ryan Yeske
2007-05-16  2:23               ` Mike Mattie
2007-05-14  1:17           ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-14  5:06             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-05-14  6:47               ` David Kastrup
2007-05-14 15:07               ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-14 17:20                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-14  6:41             ` David Kastrup
2007-05-14  8:02               ` joakim
2007-05-14 15:10               ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-14 18:41                 ` Ryan Yeske
2007-05-14 19:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-14 19:16                   ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-14 22:36                   ` Ryan Yeske
2007-05-16 15:46                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-17 12:43                     ` David Kastrup
2007-05-17 14:17                       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-15 23:52                 ` thorne
2007-05-18 23:10             ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-18 23:31               ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-19 22:31                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-19 22:33                   ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-20 17:05                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-20 21:45                       ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-21  5:19                         ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 10:33                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 10:46                           ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 18:36                             ` JD Smith
2007-05-21 18:47                               ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 18:51                               ` Chong Yidong
2007-05-21 19:02                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-22 14:52                                 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-05-25 21:13                               ` Ken Manheimer
2007-05-25 21:24                                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-26  7:01                                 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-28  3:10                                   ` dhruva
2007-05-29  0:02                                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-29  6:21                                       ` dhruva
2007-05-29  9:30                                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-05-29 10:30                                           ` Frank Schmitt
2007-05-29 14:36                                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-05-29 14:45                                               ` Frank Schmitt
2007-05-29 17:49                                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-05-29 22:00                                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-05-30 15:43                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-30 16:15                                                       ` joakim
2007-06-02 17:29                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-03  9:56                                                           ` Frank Schmitt
2007-05-30 15:44                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-30 21:55                                                     ` Frank Schmitt
2007-05-31 22:32                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-30  4:27                                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-03  3:23                                 ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-22  8:30                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 16:33                           ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-21 18:32                             ` CVS is the `released version' (ELL and the ohio lisp archive) Stephen Eglen
2007-05-24 21:22                             ` CVS is the `released version' Richard Stallman
2007-05-24 21:58                               ` New Extensions (was: Re: CVS is the `released version') Henrik Enberg
2007-05-24 21:22                             ` CVS is the `released version' Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 12:03                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-21 12:13                           ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 12:45                           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-21 13:18                           ` jasonr
2007-05-21 15:39                             ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-22 10:10                               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-22 11:18                                 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-22 13:36                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-05-22 15:19                                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-22 15:37                                       ` Jason Rumney
2007-05-22 15:12                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-22 17:24                                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-23 14:54                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-23 15:02                                       ` Jason Rumney
2007-05-23 19:08                                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-05-21  2:57                       ` Bob Rogers
2007-05-21 13:24                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 16:22                           ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-21 12:53                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-21 16:41                       ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-21 19:40                         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-22  4:38                     ` Xavier Maillard
2007-05-20  7:54                   ` David Kastrup
2007-05-20 21:53                     ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-21  5:24                       ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21  5:53                         ` dhruva
2007-05-21  6:51                           ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21  8:47                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-05-21  9:22                           ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 13:24                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 13:51                           ` David Kastrup
2007-05-24 21:22                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 10:17                       ` package.el (was: Re: CVS is the `released version') David Reitter
2007-05-21 17:40                         ` package.el Tom Tromey
2007-05-21 18:13                           ` package.el David Kastrup
2007-05-21 22:43                           ` package.el David Reitter
2007-05-21 22:51                             ` package.el Tom Tromey
2007-05-21 23:48                               ` package.el Davis Herring
2007-05-21 23:56                                 ` package.el Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-05-25 21:39                                 ` package.el Tom Tromey
2007-05-27  1:00                                   ` package.el Richard Stallman
2007-05-21 23:50                               ` package.el David Reitter
2007-05-21 23:44                                 ` package.el Tom Tromey
2007-05-22  2:21                                   ` package.el Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-05-22 10:18                                   ` package.el Stefan Monnier
2007-05-21 22:57                             ` package.el David Kastrup
2007-05-20 22:05                     ` CVS is the `released version' Richard Stallman
2007-05-19 22:31                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-19 22:31                   ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-20 17:05                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-20 21:23                       ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-21 12:59                       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-21 13:03                         ` David Kastrup
2007-05-21 14:14                           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-05-21 16:50                         ` Tom Tromey
2007-05-22 14:51                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-22  6:10               ` Trent Buck
2007-05-22  7:56                 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-24 21:22                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-05-10 20:42   ` David Kastrup
2007-05-10 23:05 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-05-10 23:23   ` Davis Herring
2007-05-11 12:31     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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