From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Update of ELPA package guess-language Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:03:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y28s8mi0.fsf@posteo.de> <87sfyx9602.fsf@posteo.net> <87y28phgyx.fsf@gnu.org> <8a1057dd-3eea-4d95-b6c4-7f036b22bca3@www.fastmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10961"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Bozhidar Batsov" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 05:08:22 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 1mKBBF-0002gN-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2021 05:08:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKBBE-0001a4-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKB70-0002Lh-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKB70-00058b-0I; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:03:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKB6j-0006CZ-TG; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 23:03:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8a1057dd-3eea-4d95-b6c4-7f036b22bca3@www.fastmail.com> (bozhidar@batsov.dev) 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:273368 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. ]]] > Seems like a prudent idea to me. I was surprised to learn that GNU ELPA and NonGNU ELPA behave differently in this regard. Perhaps there's some concern that changes that are not properly copyrighted might make their way into GNU ELPA? It is that, but more than that. The developers of some NonGNU ELPA packages have not (as far as I know) made any arrangements with us. They never engaged to maintain the code in accord with the rules of NonGNU ELPA, so we can't presume that they are doing so. We can only look at their changes and then decide what to do. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)