Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.05.2020 22:03, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
> > > You know what? By these explicit decisions, ELPA is close to useless in the
> > > Emacs community, MELPA is the biggest repo, and since MELPA isn’t ELPA, it
> > > already has proprietary packages that a lot of people rely and use.
> > I'm very surprised to hear that.  Can you point to examples of
> > proprietary packages?  It's virtually impossible to legally distribute
> > a proprietary Elisp package because it inevitably has to link to some
> > existing Elisp code and almost all of it is GLPv3.
> I'm pretty sure he meant "packages that use proprietary software".
>
> In the example he cited (https://github.com/TommyX12/company-tabnine)
> we see the license is MIT.

Indeed. So it's not a problem from the licensing point of view (I think).

But his general point is probably valid: the more we alienate the 
third-party community, and the more we are dismissive of their needs and 
expectations, the more likely they are to discount any of our other 
recommendations, pay no attention whether a package is in GNU ELPA or 
not, and generally use whatever programs that *do* attend to their needs.