Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > The first step of it -- operating on a package name, which would very 
likely
  > > point to a repo site that we condemn, would put us into a moral 
contradiction.
  > > However, there's no moral problem in the rest of it.
  > >
  > > Would you like to implement `package-fetch' so that it always wants
  > > a URL as argument?

  > Do you mean to say that there is an issue in just cloning a git
  > repository from say GitHub?

I see various manings for "just cloning a git repository from say
GitHub".  I am not sure what issue you're talking about.  But I think
we are miscommunicating -- talking about two different things.

What I'm saying is, package-fetch should not preference specific web
sites not run by us.  It should definitely NOT preference github,
because we urge people not to put their things on github.

So I suggest that its argument should be a URL, and it should get the
package from that URL.  Whatever URL the user gives.  If the user
specifies a github URL, it would get the package from github.

But it should never spontaneously choose or suggest or prefer github.

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