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Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Ema
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Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:59:16 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> It doesn't seem much more random to say "we're adding your repo URL to
>> our list of approved ELPA pull-sources" than to say "you're now free to
>> push whatever you like", does it? An ELPA administrator still has to
>> make that explicit decision to add the URL, so there's still a level of
>> approval?
>
> I think there's a fairly large difference:
>
> - When we pull from an external repository, every person who has write
> access to that repository is now in charge of thinking "does this fit
> the copyright requirements?", whereas only the original official
> maintainer has been explicitly informed about those requirements.
> - The set of such people can be changed completely outside of our control,
> whereas we always make sure that people have signed the proper
> copyright paperwork before they get push access.
> - After the initial setup, everything else would be transparent, so it'd
> be easy for the developers to forget or be unaware that it's published
> in GNU ELPA.
> The mindset on github is one that doesn't encourage careful
> consideration of licensing and authorship but instead encourages
> "happy sharing" [ Paradoxically, the FSF's insistence on tracking
> copyright assignments makes this very problematic (even tho, "happy
> sharing" is really what we all want to do) unless it's between people
> who we know have signed the copyright paperwork. ]
> So psychologically, I think there is a big difference between
> "everything takes place on github" and "an explicit step is needed
> every time you want to get the code to the gnu.org side".
Okay, that makes sense.
Thanks,
Eric
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Kangas, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, ndame, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Yuan Fu, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, ndame, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Tim Cross, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?,
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- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/25