From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <83imh5hby1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="27249"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_T=C3=A1vora?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 04:34:23 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbnK-00070N-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 04:34:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60058 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbnJ-0000fO-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbit-0001CT-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35941) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbis-0000Qy-Si; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbir-00059P-0k; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_T=C3=A1vora?= on Sat, 9 May 2020 10:48:34 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249623 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. ]]] > That was my impression initially too. But in practice it evolved to > a place for the "not quite ready for prime-time" cases: i.e. we > let most everything in, provided they have copyright and adhere > to some minimal conventions. That is a good point. So we don't uphold the same > standard there, never did, I think. Not 100% of the technical conventions, I think -- but the exceptions, the ones we don't insist on before putting the package in ELPA, should be things that we can reasonably hope to fix. Nowadays, I see ELPA as a > staging place for packages to come in, eventually make it into core > _and_ back into ELPA as :core packages. I didn't know we were using it that way, but it seems like a good approach. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)