From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: melpa.org doesn't work without nonfree software Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:35:10 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459546525 13939 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2016 21:35:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 21:35:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 23:35:16 2016 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 1am6ip-00080L-VS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:35:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1am6ip-0005mp-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1am6im-0005mi-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1am6il-000501-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1am6il-0004zr-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1am6ik-0000Kc-JJ; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:35:10 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:202578 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] There is a big ethical problem with site melpa.org. It does not work at all unless the user executes Javascript code. Several pages of it. It does not seem to carry free software licenses. I determined this by trying to access it with IceCat. It blocked lots of Javascript. Even the most basic navigation does not work. I hope that we can get this fixed. John Wiegley, would you like to talk with them about it? However, for the moment, please do not post anything here referring people to melpa.org. Is there anything in the Emacs sources mentioning melpa.org? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.