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: debbugs tracker builds character Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87twg2g86g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83eg76n5h5.fsf@gnu.org> <87y45eeoor.fsf@lifelogs.com> <577D42BB.1020500@cs.ucla.edu> <87oa694rfw.fsf@russet.org.uk> <837fcxlbay.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1d2wg5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83eg75jk5h.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1cb6p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87oa5sa176.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <874m7kmkcm.fsf@gmx.de> <871t2o6t94.fsf@gmx.de> <87wpkf6pup.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83zipbxcyu.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvlb6mxc.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469145008 29105 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2016 23:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:50:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 22 01:49:59 2016 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 1bQNj4-0005SF-UP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 01:49:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQNj4-0006DU-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQNiU-0006DL-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQNiT-0006hB-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58916) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQNiT-0006gx-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bQNiT-0003Qy-0m; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 19:49:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mvlb6mxc.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:17:03 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206005 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. ]]] Response to Ted Zlatanov > The license is the first issue, before we do that work. Gitlab is not > GPL: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE What is the proposed activity here? Is this about storing some software on the gitlab.com repository? Or about doing something with some of the programs that run on the gitlab.com servers? Those two questions have very little in common. Or about something else? For using a repository, see http://gnu.org/software/repo-criteria. For running a program, the program needs to be free software. See http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the definition and http://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html for whether various licenses are free or not. -- 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.