From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:20 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <83wnwolu2i.fsf@gnu.org> <835z48lf21.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3656"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 23:01:50 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 1kxdLp-0000q2-ML for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:01:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33082 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxdLo-0008PA-P0 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:01:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxcVH-0004it-Rf for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxcVH-0002iR-73; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxcV6-0005SP-5L; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <835z48lf21.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:31:18 +0200) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:00:49 -0500 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:504 Archived-At: If the goal of the GNU project is to eliminate non-free software, why should it help you, or anyone else in finding such software? You can find it on your own, nobody is stopping you -- but why should the GNU project or projects under its umbrella who have their main goal of is getting rid of such software work against its own goals? > I see no problem here, either: repology.org doesn't promote or > legitimize any of the packages whose information it records. > > It does so by listing (describing) them; that legitimizes the non-free > programs. You are saying those programs are breaking the law? The GNU project policy is to not legitimizes non-free software, what the law says is irrelevant here. So I fail to see what law has to do with anything. And as to why I elided much of your response is because you are being discourteous, and double so here.