Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08.05.2020 21:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> After thinking about that for a while, I came to the sad conclusion
> that I no longer understand what is the relation between GNU ELPA and
> the Emacs project.

I've always considered GNU ELPA to be the "blessed" package repository 
of Emacs. One where we have read the code of all packages and can 
confirm that they don't do anything malicious and don't use proprietary 
software. And aren't useless, I guess.

In any case, since we can't confirm the same of MELPA packages (at any 
time the author of a given package could push out a new version with 
some malicious payload inside; that's never happened, but still), we 
can't recommend them to the same extent.

That's why we have ELPA as the only package repository in new Emacs 
installations. And these are also the reasons why it's good to add new 
packages to it.