From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:30:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87im8jb6uq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <87h7o29p12.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9162"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 02 06:31:10 2021 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 1kvZVM-0002Hg-FB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 06:31:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZVL-0004sw-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:31:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZUc-0004NB-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZUc-0005K9-F3; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kvZUa-0004iI-RW; Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:30:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 1 Jan 2021 13:05:54 +0300) 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:262284 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. ]]] > Just as the GNU website does not provide references to non-free > software catalogue, then why should such package be part of GNU ELPA > and unintentionally or intentionally promote non-free software. Note > the "GNU" in GNU ELPA. There is no need to argue for or against this position, because it reflects the GNU Project's policy as stated in the node References in the GNU Coding Standards. We won't suggest that people use repology.org unless it changes its practice on this point. -- 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)