all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [nongnu] elpa/rainbow-delimiters a32b39bdfe: Add license file with GPLv3
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:24:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmbZp+O5fEBLndQd3gFimwzhVUgAbg3tnhPaEsyJabM4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmtkdzz9z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> `.dir-locals.el`, `.github`, and `.travis.yml` are usually very small,
> so I don't see much benefit in skipping them (and for `.dir-locals.el`
> I can see a clear harm since users might still look at (or even edit)
> the installed files and the local vars might be useful).
> Same for the Makefiles.
>
> I think rather than "are they useful" the criteria should be "are they
> harmful".  E.g. I objected to the addition of a copy of the GPLv3 text
> because in those packages it takes more space than the rest of the
> package, which I consider harmful.

I can see the  sense in including ".dir-locals.el" but e.g. ".github"
and ".travis.yml" only makes sense in relation to proprietary software,
so I think arguably they are harmful.

I think other than that, I have no objection to what you write but we
should probably document that criteria somewhere.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-02 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <164107430330.17202.17260845381664886032@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220101215824.BB13CC0DEC3@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-01-01 23:03   ` [nongnu] elpa/rainbow-delimiters a32b39bdfe: Add license file with GPLv3 Stefan Monnier
2022-01-01 23:47     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02  0:02       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02 11:52         ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-02 16:00           ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-02 20:12           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03  8:41             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-03 15:46               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-03  4:37           ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-03  8:20             ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-04  3:09               ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-02 20:02         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-02 20:24           ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-01-02 20:31             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-04  4:04               ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-04  6:04                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-02  0:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-02  1:34         ` Stefan Kangas

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CADwFkmmbZp+O5fEBLndQd3gFimwzhVUgAbg3tnhPaEsyJabM4g@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=stefan@marxist.se \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.