From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el]
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:32:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhyqojbq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhyrgnrw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> Grim Schjetne writes:
>
> > I viewed a random package in Marmalade and it had no indication of a
> > license whatsoever. Perhaps the author intended to release it as free
> > software
>
> If so, it *is* free software. It's just very risky for users, because
> without a verifiable statement of license, the author could change his
> mind and the users would have no recourse.
A user does not have a "recourse" anyway. The author can always change
his mind even with a verifiable statement of license and sue. A
verifiable statement of license is no help against that, but it is a
good defense. Note that in the U.S.A., the financial risk of even a
meritless lawsuit is enough of a detraction for anybody: only in the
case of _frivolous_ lawsuits (and the barrier for that is rather high)
does the defendant get to reclaim his court fees and attorney costs.
> True, failing to post a license violates best practices, but it's
> unlikely that even a patent shark would upload a file to Marmalade in
> the hopes that they could sue users for enough money to pay court
> costs.
That's not the shark model for small fry. The shark model is to sue
and/or send a cease and desist letter, then settle out of court for less
than the cost of a successful defense.
> It would be nice if the repos would enforce a policy of removing
> packages that do not contain an explicit statement of license.
Yes, definitely.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-08 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-03 20:09 mykie.el Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-03 21:37 ` mykie.el Bozhidar Batsov
2014-01-04 1:08 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-06 22:47 ` mykie.el, mykie.el Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-06 23:00 ` enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el] Drew Adams
2014-01-06 23:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-07 0:29 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 1:08 ` Eric Brown
2014-01-07 5:39 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 8:33 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-01-07 8:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-07 14:41 ` Grim Schjetne
2014-01-07 15:12 ` Stephen Berman
2014-01-07 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 20:55 ` Stephen Berman
2014-01-08 11:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-01-08 13:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-08 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-08 17:19 ` enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul Glenn Morris
2014-01-07 17:44 ` enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el] Drew Adams
2014-01-08 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-08 4:26 ` Bob Bobeck
2014-01-08 10:50 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-01-08 17:54 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-09 3:00 ` Andy Moreton
2014-01-09 6:55 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-01-09 7:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-01-09 11:24 ` chad
2014-01-09 18:15 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-08 3:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-08 10:32 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-01-07 16:53 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-08 3:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-08 9:27 ` Richard Stallman
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2014-01-07 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-07 16:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-07 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2014-01-08 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-04 2:02 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-04 4:34 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-04 8:36 ` mykie.el Leo Liu
2014-01-05 8:10 ` mykie.el Mitchel Humpherys
2014-01-05 10:29 ` mykie.el Leo Liu
2014-01-06 16:09 ` mykie.el Nicolas Richard
2014-01-06 22:38 ` mykie.el Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-07 0:37 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-07 23:21 ` mykie.el Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-08 3:24 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-08 15:44 ` mykie.el Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-08 16:11 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-08 16:38 ` mykie.el Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-08 17:24 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-09 8:13 ` mykie.el Tassilo Horn
2014-01-09 15:29 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-09 18:43 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-11 20:23 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-12 14:45 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 18:32 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-12 19:46 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 22:51 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-13 3:38 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 4:59 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-13 14:03 ` mykie.el Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 16:09 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-08 21:21 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
2014-01-06 5:31 ` mykie.el Yuta Yamada
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