From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el] Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:23:15 +0900 Message-ID: <87lhyrgnrw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <20140103.200846.1574807089640559527.cokesboy@gmail.com> <87a9f8g22x.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <76f5b9cd-3452-4189-b3a0-30dc55a3ee55@default> <87wqic65kj.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874n5gfvjv.fsf@mac.com> <93a2d060-c7f8-4ce3-9bff-f7397be690ff@default> <874n5fhn1j.fsf@schjetne.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389151410 2918 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 03:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 03:23:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Grim Schjetne Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 04:23:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0jjx-0000i7-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:23:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0jjx-0001Wa-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0jjo-0001Vh-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0jjg-00052L-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:23:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:56466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0jjg-00051i-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3960D97069B; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 12:23:15 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2D6871A2879; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 12:23:15 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <874n5fhn1j.fsf@schjetne.se> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167695 Archived-At: 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. 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. It would be nice if the repos would enforce a policy of removing packages that do not contain an explicit statement of license.