From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving GNU ELPA Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:54:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r2xg2wra.fsf@bernoul.li> <87pod02swk.fsf@bernoul.li> <87tw29ogxa.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87vamo58ze.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500864938 26463 195.159.176.226 (24 Jul 2017 02:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 02:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 04:55:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZTWs-0006Rd-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:55:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZTWy-0006d2-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZTWT-0006Ld-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZTWT-0000Qe-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZTVb-00005s-EH; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dZTVb-0001QJ-3C; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:54:11 -0400 In-reply-to: <87vamo58ze.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216958 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. ]]] > > Typically things like incorrect copyright notices or compilation breakage. > Does ELPA not check for the copyright? I.e. if it's incorrect, it will > be wrong in the git repo only and not in the distributed ELPA package. We could make ELPA check that files have the correct copyright notices. We could also make it check that they have the correct license notices. It would be useful to implement sending us warnings for that. Would anyone like to implement this? However, the crucial thing is not what the file SAYS about copyright, but what the actual facts are about the copyright. We take care of that by getting copyright assignments. Once that is done, if a notice in a file is inaccurate, all we need to do is correct it. -- 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.