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: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> 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="17670"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 08:51:24 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 1kxQ4q-0004Ty-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:51:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ4p-0002x3-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ3E-0001cO-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ3D-0000ov-LL; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxQ31-0004sd-LG; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:49:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Wed, 6 Jan 2021 21:53:08 +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:262651 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. ]]] You've brought us bad news about repology.org. Not only does it include nonfree packages with no effort to avoid them, it fails to provide enough information for us to easily filter them out. I see two ways we could possibly manage to use repology.org in the Free World. * Find a way to distinguish free from nonfree packages. I see two ideas One is to snarf the lists of free packages from Debian and Parabola. Another is to see if free packages list a license that shows they are free. You might have other ideas. * Ask the developer of repology.org to work with us to indicate which packages are free, maybe even provide a way to specify "show me only free packages". Does anyone have another idea? -- 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)