From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:15:16 +0300 Message-ID: References: <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20362"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Jean Louis , ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@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 Thu Jan 07 09:19:42 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 1kxQWE-0005CF-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:19:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50622 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQWD-00030I-8I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:19:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQVA-0002bV-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:58115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQV5-0005hO-AF; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.154.95]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000294DDB.000000005FF6C3D2.00004108; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 01:18:26 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , arthur.miller@live.com, rms@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:262657 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2021-01-06 22:27]: > > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 21:53:08 +0300 > > From: Jean Louis > > Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > > Richard Stallman , Dmitry Gutov > > > > "Distributable" is vague and does not say really what license it is, > > but I do ensure you that Opera is proprietary software. > > > > And so on, and so on. > > > > By putting repology.el into GNU ELPA, GNU software like Emacs will > > become a good reference to unethical software repositories promoting > > among proprietary software. > > Showing information about a package and a link to download it is a far > cry from "promoting" it. To promote means to contribute to the progress or growth of, in one definition, and in other it means to make publicity for something. Reference comes from Wordnet dictionary. repology.el is promoting software packages including many non-free software packages. You may have different opinion on what promoting means. I don't agree it is not promoting.