And we Emacs developers should have a say in how we plan to protect our
right to distribute copies or develop our project, no?

Sure, but I fail to see to see how is this related to the inclusion of any third-party package in NonGNU ELPA.

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023, at 3:31 AM, Po Lu wrote:
"Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev> writes:

> I believe this conversation has drifted a lot from the original topic
> (clojure-ts-mode). I have to say I'm a bit frustrated that every time
> someone wants to submit something to NonGNU ELPA there's some push to
> either submit to GNU ELPA or core instead. I've been maintaining
> almost all of the Clojure dev tooling for Emacs for over a decade, so
> I do believe that by now I know what I'm doing and how I want to do
> things. I've said a million times by now that I don't want
> contributors to have to deal with copyright agreements and with
> quirks/oddities in the Emacs development process. I believe that the
> maintainers who actually work on something should be allowed to decide
> how their projects get developed.

And we Emacs developers should have a say in how we plan to protect our
right to distribute copies or develop our project, no?