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 12:51:01 -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> <2711c432-bcac-838c-f6ff-885c2e5934bc@gmail.com> 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="1099"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mail@vasilij.de To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 18:52:19 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 1kxZSM-000093-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:52:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56024 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxZSL-0007r6-0x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:52:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxZRB-0007NQ-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxZRA-0008Vv-Or; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxZR7-0005v4-E8; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:51:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) 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:262697 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. ]]] > Anyway, if repology.org has a general practice of listing only free > software, I would not criticize it for having difficulty with an > unclear case like this. > It does not from what I could see on the web page, it lists everything > that is added. What repology is doing is a grave wrong to the free software community, so grave that a single apology would not be sufficient. They need to publish an apology, followed by a repology. ;-} -- 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)