From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA policy Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:34:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447367675 9426 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2015 22:34:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 23:34:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx0Rq-0003ma-Ct for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 23:34:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx0Rp-0003L7-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx0Rk-0003IK-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx0Rk-0001xl-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:34:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx0Ri-0001vJ-JP; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx0Rh-000696-Pt; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:34:21 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Artur Malabarba on Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:35:27 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194300 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Richard, do think such as system would be viable copyright-wise? In terms of copyright, there is no difference between the system I proposed (installing what Drew puts in certain web pages) and the method Drew doesn't like, which is for him to install the same changes via Git. Whichever method he uses, he technically could install code written by others whom we don't have papers for. If we permit him to use Git to install changes, that entails trusting him to handle this responsibility. If we can trust him to do it with one method, we can trust him to do it with the other method. > We should also consider whether this is sound from the security > standpoint. I mean, pushing the code to ELPA without any review from the > core developers. The same would occur if we invite him to install changes in his packages through Git. If we can check enough one way, we can check enough the other way. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.