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: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:16:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87shi4z7ps.fsf@bernoul.li> <87zic9zuof.fsf@bernoul.li> <877ezaajme.fsf@bernoul.li> <87shhw2xuv.fsf@bernoul.li> <87a844cmgx.fsf@ernst> <874ltwbzpl.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501262364 4850 195.159.176.226 (28 Jul 2017 17:19:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mats.lidell@cag.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 19:19:20 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 1db8ux-0000v0-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:19:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db8v2-0001Te-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db8so-0000bd-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db8sn-0001F9-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1db8si-000188-FR; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1db8si-0006TC-8p; Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:16:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <874ltwbzpl.fsf@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:52:38 +0200) 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:217107 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. ]]] > Also I am under the impression that things are getting better, not > worse. A higher percentage of new packages specify a license than in > the old days. This might be very significant. Would you like to describe the comparison more precisely? For instance, what is the pool of packages you're analyzing? All packages in GitHub? All Emacs packages? Something else? What time periods did you use for analysis, for each time period, what was the fraction with licenses? > People like Steve > Purcell and me have contacted hundreds and hundreds of authors over the > course of many years encouraging and helping them to improve their > packages. Thank you very much. It's possible that your efforts are responsible for the improvement, if it is in Emacs packages. -- 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.