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: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:29:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2CCFB38C-4D19-4330-91C4-CF00EEDB58D6@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499678973 7460 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2017 09:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 10 11:29:30 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 1dUV0P-0001YE-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:29:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUV0U-0001Og-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUV0I-0001N1-JV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUV0H-0003j8-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUV0E-0003hE-5R; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUV0D-0006wx-Ip; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:29:13 -0400 In-reply-to: <2CCFB38C-4D19-4330-91C4-CF00EEDB58D6@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Sun, 9 Jul 2017 07:12:12 +0900) 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:216398 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. ]]] > If ELPA inclusion is as cumbersome as Clement describes it, adding > elisp *user* notifications will only upset users and will change > little else. We are miscommunicating. The point of this notice is to teach the whole community about the need to think about legal papers from an early stage. If they have done this, it would eliminate one obstacle to putting the package in ELPA. But really it is not about ELPA. The point is to prevent packages from getting into the problem situation that Magit is now in. It sounds like ELPA is very inconvenient to use. I agree we should make it easier. But that's a separate issue. -- 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.