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: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1500553768.497130.1046984072.1622AF4D@webmail.messagingengine.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500585628 5374 195.159.176.226 (20 Jul 2017 21:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Rankin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 20 23:20:24 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 1dYIrq-0000tS-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrw-0005Mz-5u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrl-0005L5-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIrk-0001zY-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIre-0001pZ-Nw; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dYIre-00024D-CJ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:20:06 -0400 In-reply-to: <1500553768.497130.1046984072.1622AF4D@webmail.messagingengine.com> (message from Paul Rankin on Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:29:28 +1000) 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:216908 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. ]]] > These are only problems from the FSF's perspective. Emacs is part of the GNU project, so it is based on the FSF's values and views. If you start a project, you can run it as you wish. > All of this is based on the assumption that people *want* to assign > their copyright to FSF. This is not the case. I develop a couple of > packages and I would never assign my copyright. This list is for discussion about Emacs development. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but it sounds like you're saying you are unwilling to contribute code to Emacs. You are under no obligation to contribute, but if you aren't going to, the value of what you say here is somewhat reduced. -- 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.