Re: NonGNU ELPA work

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I don't think you said you agreed explicitly, but all of the concerns
  > you described were addressed, and you didn't respond to the last
  > messages in that discussion.

That message from Sep 4 responded by my concerns by refusing to
address them.  Far from showing that everything was ok, that message
made it appear likely they were not.

I didn't reply to that message because that did not seem likely to put
things on the right track.

Why do we need special rules for NonGNU ELPA?  Because we are not
applying the usual rules that we use to assure our legal needs and
moral principles with everything else in Emacs.  For Emacs core and
for GNU ELPA, we use copyright papers, and we notice and correct
things that conflict with our principles.  But the point of NonGNU
ELPA is to be an exception to those rules -- so we need another
solution for it.

      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/nongnu.git/tree/README.org

When the maintainers agreed to these rules a year ago, that was what
convinced me that we could go ahead with NonGNU ELPA.  But we didn't
set up a methodical system to carry them out.  We need that.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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