From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: xr Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:38:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <831s4lsz89.fsf@gnu.org> <834l9fsm0h.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftsyrbna.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="161737"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 04:38:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJT1-000fwG-QJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:38:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJT0-00063I-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42207) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJSq-00061D-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:38:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJSq-0008W4-GA; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJSq-00020u-9O; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:38:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83ftsyrbna.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:18:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:233156 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. ]]] > And if that is not enough for some reason, then what exactly should > the contributor of a package say, and where, to express such a > statement? I expect that saying "my file foo is a change to Emacs" is enough. > Also, there are packages distributed with Emacs which can be > considered not "clearly" a change to Emacs -- should the same policy > be used for them? E.g., Gnus or Org or ERC -- they are add-ons that > have no direct effect on the Emacs core. We treat ERC, Gnus and Org Mode as parts of Emacs for copyright purposes. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)