From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:38:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4a1188f8-9864-54c0-ae6f-5f32102d9757@gmx.com> <20201011120840.GC2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201011125031.GC6784@odonien.localdomain> <20201012050418.GZ2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201013052736.GE31408@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> <20201016142436.187b8210@argon> <20201016152523.6fdfef65@argon> <6142a27f-c53b-35bf-1038-5f047395e868@yandex.ru> <20201016204531.77fab05b@argon> <725aa7c4-321f-4483-5a21-a148ff7f119b@yandex.ru> <20201016213312.603595fe@argon> <20201017184036.12095175@argon> <1c8fed50-e124-6d62-466a-0392b9379e2e@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9345"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: mve1@runbox.com, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 23:40:28 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 1kTtwC-0002LF-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40576 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTtwB-0001vU-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42288) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTtuk-0000iO-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34002) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTtui-0003HC-Sj; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:38:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTtuh-0003zo-Ch; Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:38:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <1c8fed50-e124-6d62-466a-0392b9379e2e@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 22:51:54 +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:257976 Archived-At: > It is GNU policy not to promote or encourage proprietary software. Those are not objective words, but a matter of opinion, to say the least. Most things in life are opinions, but those are the opinions of the GNU project, Emacs, and this list. > To > the extent that any community does so, GNU must not promote or encourage > that community. You are saying that, by mentioning MELPA is the poll, GNU would promote MELPA. Right? Reading the GNU Coding Standards (see (standards) References) would be a good start to understanding what the policies are; the short answer is yes.