From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:30:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8s9dafbc@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X+3OF4ndk3/s+QTL@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:11:51 +0300")
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2020, Jean Louis wrote:
> GNU project is development of free software. It does not contribute
> and should not contribute to installations, references, promotion or
> support to non-free software, neither it shall support remote servers
> doing so.
> Specific free GNU/Linux operating systems and their packages are
> promoted and supported by GNU project:
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
I've always wondered how many of the Emacs developers are actually using
one of these? On free hardware with free firmware, because everything
else would be inconsequent.
> Others are not supported:
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
> As non-free packages are not advertised by GNU project neither by free
> endorsed OSes it would be contradiction to advertise such non-free
> packages through this package. GNU ELPA should not promote such
> non-free packages and should not provide API to remote server that
> lists, searches, indexes and provides results where non-free packages
> may be included.
> The package you proposed does not teach users about free software but
> advertises non-free software.
> repology.org compiles databases of free software and non-free software
> together without any ethical distinction.
I find your standpoint rather extreme, because the vast majority of the
projects there is distributed under a free software license.
If there weren't any such services as repology.org, users would likely
use a search engine to find a specific package. How is that better?
> It is in contradiction how endorsed free software GNU/Linux operating
> systems are structured, see:
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
> Additionally it advertises third party server about which we know
> nothing of, which would collecting data from Emacs users.
IIUC their server's software is licensed under GPLv3+ and publicly
available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 145+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 16:23 [ELPA] New package: repology.el Nicolas Goaziou
2020-12-30 19:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-30 21:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2020-12-31 13:31 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-31 11:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2020-12-31 13:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-31 20:30 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2021-01-01 7:31 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-01 10:05 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-01 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-02 9:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-02 5:30 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-04 12:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 14:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-04 15:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-04 16:32 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-05 6:45 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 8:56 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-07 7:34 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-04 15:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 16:29 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-04 17:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 17:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-04 17:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 17:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-04 17:43 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-01-04 17:55 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2021-01-04 18:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-01-04 22:21 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2021-01-05 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05 6:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 9:28 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-06 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-06 9:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-07 17:51 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-04 19:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-04 19:17 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-01-06 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-06 10:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-06 14:41 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-06 14:59 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-06 15:21 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-06 16:23 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-06 18:53 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-06 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-06 21:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-06 21:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 8:54 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-07 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 7:49 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 11:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-09 6:39 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 10:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 8:15 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-07 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-06 20:36 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-07 7:48 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 16:53 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-14 5:21 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-15 14:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-01-16 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 7:49 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 9:00 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-08 6:21 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 10:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-09 6:34 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-09 21:07 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-11 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-12 8:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-20 6:14 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-21 11:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-22 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-22 9:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-24 6:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-24 8:34 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-25 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 6:52 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-25 12:11 ` Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
2021-01-25 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-27 7:37 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 15:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-25 17:59 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-25 18:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-26 3:40 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-26 6:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-26 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-27 18:32 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-25 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 13:21 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-26 5:59 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-26 13:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-27 7:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-24 10:53 ` Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: " Jean Louis
2021-01-24 17:50 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-24 19:12 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-24 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 20:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-25 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 6:01 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-26 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 16:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-26 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 16:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-26 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 22:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-28 6:29 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-28 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-29 6:36 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-24 20:47 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-25 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 17:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-25 17:56 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-25 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 3:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-01-26 6:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 20:10 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-25 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 6:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 20:46 ` tomas
2021-01-27 7:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 9:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-26 6:03 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-26 9:24 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-01-27 7:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-26 15:43 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2021-01-26 16:48 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-01-28 6:34 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-25 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-16 5:21 ` freedom issues in free software Richard Stallman
2021-01-07 15:05 ` [ELPA] New package: repology.el Stefan Monnier
2021-01-13 15:57 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 6:33 ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 11:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 7:32 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-30 21:58 ` [ELPA] New package: repology.el (v2) Nicolas Goaziou
2021-01-04 11:45 ` [ELPA] New package: repology.el (v3) Nicolas Goaziou
2021-01-04 17:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-19 9:50 ` [ELPA] New package: repology.el (v4) Nicolas Goaziou
2021-01-20 6:13 ` Richard Stallman
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