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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs |
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Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:45 -0400 |
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> That was my impression initially too. But in practice it evolved to
> a place for the "not quite ready for prime-time" cases: i.e. we
> let most everything in, provided they have copyright and adhere
> to some minimal conventions.
That is a good point.
So we don't uphold the same
> standard there, never did, I think.
Not 100% of the technical conventions, I think -- but the exceptions,
the ones we don't insist on before putting the package in ELPA,
should be things that we can reasonably hope to fix.
Nowadays, I see ELPA as a
> staging place for packages to come in, eventually make it into core
> _and_ back into ELPA as :core packages.
I didn't know we were using it that way, but it seems like a good
approach.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Daniel Colascione, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, David Engster, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/11
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/11