[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Ema
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:26:48 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <address@hidden> writes:
> The reasons why package authors would not want to include it, on the other
> hand,
> could obviously vary. Some of the reasons I have seen are
> unfortunately very shallow:
>
> (1) - Misconceptions about how hard it is to work with emacs-devel.
> (2) - An unwillingness to assign copyright to the FSF, seemingly often more
> due to
> inertia than any principled opposition.
> (3) - Strongly ideological anti-FSF sentiments (often disguised as
> "non-ideological"
> or "practical").
>
> I mean, that's my impression of it, and I'm not pretending that this list is
> exhaustive or even generally correct.
With Emacs, my experience has been that (1) and (2) are the most common
reasons, with (1) being slightly more common. I don't believe I've seen
anyone refuse to assign copyright to the FSF over (3) for Emacs packages
in a long time.
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, (continued)
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/22
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Ahmed Khanzada, 2020/04/23
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Kangas, 2020/04/23
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/23
- Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Kangas, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, chad, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers,
Po Lu <=
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Kangas, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stephen Berman, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/04/26
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, 조성빈, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, 조성빈, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/20