From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:18:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20105"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 22:20:35 2021 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 1kxGEM-00056S-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 22:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56704 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxGEL-0006Nk-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxGCt-0005SH-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxGCr-0006VA-LC; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxGCp-0006oD-PA; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:18:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:26:37 +0200) 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:262634 Archived-At: Showing information about a package and a link to download it is a far cry from "promoting" it. Suppose I want to download a potentially non-free package to study its code, or even just to understand with what kind of license it is distributed (since you say the site itself doesn't tell) -- is this "verboten" as well in Jean Louis's interpretation of what a Free Software follower should and shouldn't do? I think the issue here isn't what you, I, or Jean Louis does -- but what the GNU project does. The GNU project doesn't want to give non-free software the remote changes of success, so mentioning or linking to it unless it is very well known would be working against its own goals. This is all written down in the GNU coding standards, what GNU project should or shouldn't do, in the now so overly quoted section 'References to Non-Free Software and Documentation'.