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: PL support Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <83y2q1dsvh.fsf@gnu.org> <2468efa6-7dbd-8634-44cc-586bb6985f49@yandex.ru> <83pnbddrfd.fsf@gnu.org> <83k11ldpxs.fsf@gnu.org> <83imh5dnun.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7wpdms7.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftc9dm07.fsf@gnu.org> <0d678371-2df7-519e-5ec0-7e26bfa6ea34@gmail.com> <11dff979-002e-e03e-2e3e-cdb09fcc409e@yandex.ru> <8017be3d-a4ed-61eb-9bdb-9a95c77a0698@gmail.com> <3adf65ae-fd0d-4fee-adfd-e11d39a148fc@yandex.ru> <01e211df-acfb-fb8a-eedc-7cb439b64cd8@yandex.ru> 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="127104"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 04:44:58 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 1jXyR6-000Wug-Vg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 04:44:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43694 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyR6-0001Jw-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyMU-0002zV-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyMU-0002VB-8Z; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXyMT-0007J7-Hv; Sun, 10 May 2020 22:40:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <01e211df-acfb-fb8a-eedc-7cb439b64cd8@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 10 May 2020 20:23:23 +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:249748 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. ]]] > On a personal note, I'd also support not requiring copyright assignments > for ELPA packages. Here is why we must not do that. In general, when we put a package into GNU ELPA, we want to be able to move it into the core. Putting off getting assignments would be asking for trouble, for reasons you have just encountered yourself. The policy of getting assignments at the earlier time, when we put the package into GNU ELPA, keeps is from putting it off. If there were ever some package we want to refer people to but certainly would never want to move it into the core, this issue would not arise. But how could we be sure of that? -- 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)