From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:10:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mxpabjj3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8762vyz5rl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739r2z1w8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87y68t8jif.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87r5eljosw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fwv1rukn.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289934675 20218 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2010 19:11:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric Schulte" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 20:11:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIQvt-0004cx-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:11:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIQvs-0000hM-FS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60446 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIQvo-0000hH-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIQvm-0007Pc-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:54186) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIQvm-0007PW-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oAGJAvZq009991; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 357A7130096; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:10:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87fwv1rukn.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:29:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3681=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132744 Archived-At: > If this is true and ELPA has the same strict copyright restrictions as > the Emacs core, then IMO we're losing a significant portion of the > benefit of ELPA. It doesn't cut any of the benefits of ELPA. It will only restrict them to the cases of packages whose copyright has been transferred. Note that transferring copyright is not nearly as much of a hassle as many people think. Yes, it's a big hassle for old packages that have accumulated many contributions by many people over the years (AUCTeX and BBDB come to mind), but most Elisp packages are smaller and mostly written by a single author. Stefan