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: Splitting GNU ELPA Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <405FCFAB-30E4-4F98-81DA-3B09933E86D0@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="74373"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 06:00:37 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 1jatQj-000JF1-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 06:00:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56346 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatQi-0004Ze-1e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55580) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatPk-0003Vr-Cg for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43362) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jatPk-0004JF-4J; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jatPZ-0001DV-Gw; Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 18 May 2020 14:07:07 +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:250864 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. ]]] > We could somehow annotate packages without copyright > assignment, but its lack alone doesn't make a package untrustworthy. You've changd the point a little, so as to disagree with something that wasn't what I said. Indeed, there is nothing to stop us from reviewing, and subsequently maintaining, non-copyright-assigned packages too. But that is extra work, and we already have a too much to do. So while we consider adding non-copyright-assigned packages to GNU ELPA, perhaps many of them, we should consider not adding them to the packages that get our code review and maintenance. We could instead check them only to make sure they don't lead people to nonfree software. -- 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)