From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:34:22 +0200 Message-ID: <834kjrk3ox.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <23f3f74f-c3d3-ec74-f1da-d0416d026c0d@yandex.ru> <834kjslexq.fsf@gnu.org> <83pn2fkiv5.fsf@gnu.org> <26475995-EEB8-4B71-8B06-A7B7B4C8A737@gnu.support> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6778"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 08 13:35:41 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1kxqzV-0001dl-Ih for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34864 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxqzT-0002bk-7o for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 07:35:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxqyU-0002Yj-6v for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 07:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33187) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxqyS-0006eI-54; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 07:34:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2660 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxqyB-0002XT-77; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 07:34:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <26475995-EEB8-4B71-8B06-A7B7B4C8A737@gnu.support> (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:48:53 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:515 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:48:53 +0000 > CC: rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, arthur.miller@live.com, > dgutov@yandex.ru > From: Jean Louis > > That is maybe your way of finding free software. Since 1999 I find it from distributions and if I don't believe it enough I will look into license. I'm not talking about finding free software, I'm talking about determining whether a given package is free software, and under what license it is distributed. The FSD doesn't give me that information. It also doesn't give me enough information about related components, like fonts, for example. Finding the facts about these components is the bread and butter of every GNU maintainer for a more-or-less complex GNU package. Not being able to do this part of my job with GNU-endorsed free software is a major blow. And the most painful part of that blow is that I cannot understand the reasons for it. Once again, repology.org does NOT promote any software packages it lists, regardless of what you'd like to represent. Likewise, such limitations prevents users from being able to study source code of any package that shows its code, something I think is detrimental to free exchange of ideas about software, which I always thought was the important goal of GNU.