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: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 23:50:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <547c9116-c1c3-8563-4aee-c62aa2302861@yandex.ru> <838shybfdo.fsf@gnu.org> <3f79ff6e-2471-fa6d-08ff-682afd504eca@yandex.ru> <83v9l29yz3.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8qujs0p.fsf@randomsample> <83lfly9vvs.fsf@gnu.org> <835zd29rjb.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="91596"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, deng@randomsample.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 05:53:05 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 1jaWpt-000Nib-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 05:53:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34380 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWps-0007Do-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWnG-00049p-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWnG-0002px-1l; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jaWnC-0005qt-O3; Sun, 17 May 2020 23:50:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 11 May 2020 17:12:54 -0400) 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:250704 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. ]]] > Given the context, the above could be understood to mean that you > consider that developers of MELPA packages are not part of "us" and > don't develop high-quality software. I have no comment to make about the quality of their software. I suppose some packages are high quality and some are not. Whether they are part of "us" is another question. Or rather, several other questions. We could mean the developers of GNU Emacs. We would welcome their help, if they want to contribute. To do that, they should talk with us and try to make their contributions fit in. We could mean the GNU Project. We campaign for certain overriding goals and principles: our work is not simply to develop "high-quality software". To help us, they should support our campaign -- starting with not recommending nonfree software. They choose what they do, and through that choice, they also choose to be part of "us" or not. -- 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)