From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83ftctb3ig.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="116657"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eric@ericabrahamsen.net, casouri@gmail.com, ndame@protonmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 05:36:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBbv-000UG3-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:36:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57620 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBbu-0003b4-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBbR-00030b-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBbR-0002Hs-LF; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jSBbH-0002ij-EX; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:35:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83ftctb3ig.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:07:51 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247742 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. ]]] > I don't see that as a paradox. The world of Free Software is much > larger than the world of GNU projects. The FSF is advancing the > former to encourage "happy sharing", but exercise extra caution with > the latter. That is basically true, but to be entirely correct it should say "SOME GNU packages". The "extra caution" applies to GNU packages which are copyright FSF, and is for the sake of being able to enforce copyleft in court. Other GNU packages are copyrighted by their authors. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)