From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:30:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y25eq1o6.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83r1b6om8i.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtluq046.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83o86aokoi.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7c2pxzr.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87zgpunftw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1519"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 24 14:45:12 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 1mpsaG-0000BO-JB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36190 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpsaF-0004Fg-4z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpsMZ-0000wC-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:31:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:40787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mpsMV-0000ND-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:31:02 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id BC674100186; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:30:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id F2C4D100040; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:30:52 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1637760652; bh=XM821gIia4aqIwxSAiA3agzFI3uIcw8bq0iREA1m6L8=; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=NSHycOLLlpXpO3Xh4gV3x4WML844XjCIc+xkw+bTbYqwfuIzMPVLtaKPoCrMUZZ6k xGlHYPUV8Ed55X4vHjnKy+nCHuqDosqRLdhw69CZbtQ1x6lh07Dy0zb6vuPbYDevQ7 /+lNPjBxeXX8rLPutnOewC+JhQroJgICDNt1Poxzm3oEvxKxoyfyqArrYirPCuFUYL Qgc0DCjJdTxq+4qLQgICUvSYR91HXsRLrmOtIH/K6yKnJK/vr0MwI7bqqZ0LKvcQhI XYbJWLdmZ7HjIRVhPy8/VNWaY/pVrdf90/0UFqMUbS7BvhUdpbgdynXWsoQTt7mATm 8P7Wz9EMVWbQQ== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [216.154.30.173]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC05D12044C; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:30:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87zgpunftw.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 2021 09:00:27 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=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: 2.1.29 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:279995 Archived-At: >> Side note: the current elpa.gnu.org scripts only know how to deal with >> upstream Git repositories. In theory they might be able to deal with >> a Mercurial upstream using `hg::...`, but I wouldn't bet on it working >> reliably (based on my past experience with the `git-remote-hg` plugin). > > In my understanding git-remote-hg is to do things the other way around: > access a mercurial repository with git. As long as you don't have write access to GNU ELPA/Emacs's repository then elpa.gnu.org needs to *pull* from the upstream. > I use the hg-git plugin to push and pull to a git repository using > mercurial. Ah, so elpa.gnu.org can pull from that Git. Great, so there's no problem. Sorry 'bout the noise, Stefan