From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: comparing code on different branches Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:58:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9A9EF0AB-8FD3-44C9-AAE8-ACACDEC69059@gmail.com> <87r2xw21eo.fsf@jane> <874lurbf9i.fsf@x230.lts> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499356769 4990 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2017 15:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, yann.hodique@gmail.com, jwiegley@gmail.com, jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: "Etienne Prud'homme" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 17:59:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9BU-0000iJ-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:59:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9BZ-0006zo-Ox for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9BT-0006yT-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9BS-0000QM-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9B4-00006V-0m; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dT9B3-0004Pp-0H; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:58:49 -0400 In-reply-to: (e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com) 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:216232 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. ]]] > (using a license weak to no copyleft license). I am not sure what those words mean, so this may (or may not) be an important problem. Could you please describe more concretely a few of cases? Is there any package in MELPA with a license that is nonfree? Is there any package in MELPA with no license? (A program with no license is automatically nonfree.) Is there any package in MELPA with a license that is incompatible with the GPL? Or where you are not sure whether it is compatible with the GPL? -- 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.