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Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 09 May 2020 12:56:22 +0300 |
> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 10:48:34 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>
> 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. So we don't uphold the same
> standard there, never did, I think. 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.
What is the process of becoming :core? is that documented somewhere?
E.g., is dash.el undergo such a process to be better suited for core?
Or will dash.el never be in core (in which case see below)?
> FWIW, I don't fully agree with Stefan: we should not require
> copyright assignment for inclusion in GNU ELPA if that introduces
> needless friction, but we should require of authors, maintainers or
> proponents that they make an effort to track down the contributors
> and solve this, otherwise it makes no sense for it to be there.
>
> Finally, above practical aspects, assigning copyright is declaring
> support for an idea larger than the FSF itself. It's a political
> declaration. I think the reason some people take issue with it
> is seeing their names vanish from the first few lines of the source
> file, and be replaced by something they don't agree with, or
> don't understand.
Then I ask again the same question: why not let these packages live on
MELPA or in GitHub or anywhere else? What do we and the package
maintainers gain from having these packages on ELPA?
Still confused.
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Amin Bandali, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Fu Yuan, 2020/05/08
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, João Távora, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/09
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/10
- Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs, Marcin Borkowski, 2020/05/09