From: Bob Bobeck <bob.bobeck@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, gs@schjetne.se,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el]
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 23:26:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGOTjfLjUDJz=ghVhWN8yeHmdGVwLgu6VMYOH-vCebKfYZ_BAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1W0k1T-0005tV-SZ@fencepost.gnu.org>
When you talk to them, don't forget to mention the BSD 2-Clause
License as an option: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
On 1/7/14, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> How many times did you pick a "random" package? Once?
> What proportion of Marmalade packages have no license?
>
> A program with no license notice is not free software.
> (See http://gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NoLicense.)
> It is very bad practice for a repository to permits nonfree programs.
> Every repository should have a policy not to do that.
>
> > It seems like a reasonable assumption that the overwhelming mass is
> > licensed under the GPL, but I absolutely do think a user cannot tell
> > whether an unlabelled package is free or not, at least I can't, not
> > without consulting the author.
>
> If a source file doesn't have a license notice then it is nonfree.
>
> Maybe this policy results from a misunderstanding on the part
> of whoever runs Marmalade. We should try explaining the facts
> about missing licenses and see if the maintainer of Marmalade
> will change the policy to stop allowing them. Can someone put me
> in touch with the right people?
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
> Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-08 4:26 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 [this message]
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
2014-01-07 16:53 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-08 3:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-08 9:27 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <<a62bb795-44d9-44dd-b17a-d5294c21d2b0@default>
[not found] ` <<E1W0Zto-0000A5-VX@fencepost.gnu.org>
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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