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]

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.