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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
From: |
David Engster |
Subject: |
Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 11 May 2020 19:33:26 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 19:56:59 +0300
>
>>
>> On 11.05.2020 19:33, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > Why do we need to bless any package? I can understand why the package
>> > developers would want to be blessed, but why do_we_ want to do so?
>>
>> Because we can tell the users on our home page to:
>>
>> 1. Install Emacs,
>>
>> 2. If you [do IDE stuff with it], install packages b and c.
>>
>> 3. Be productive.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 4. [do some creative stuff with it]
>>
>> 5. Install packages d and e.
>>
>> 6. Be happy and create.
>
> We can say the same without having the packages in ELPA, we just need
> to tell them in addition to set up package.el for MELPA.
No, we cannot do that. MELPA contains packages promoting non-free
software and services, so at least Richard would surely veto that.
-David
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, (continued)
- 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, 2020/05/09
- 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 <=
- 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, Alfred M. Szmidt, 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, 2020/05/12
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/12
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/12
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/14