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Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
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Óscar Fuentes |
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Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:42:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
John Yates <address@hidden> writes:
> Perhaps you should ask why Richard decided that Magit, among all
> of the many non-FSF copyright assigned packages that emacs users
> recommend to one another, was so intolerable as to justify suggesting
> mounting a - to my mind doomed - competing project. It was not as if
> all of those recommendations are for some proprietary or non-GPL-V3+
> package.
You are taking this the wrong way: Richard's request is a compliment,
not an attack.
If org-mode were not distributed with Emacs, I'm sure Richard would be
requesting the same about that package.
> Happily the community has rallied to Jonas' cause and will now try to
> bring Magit into the FSF fold.
What "cause" is that? Richard wants Magit into Emacs core, which Jonas
agrees with (with some caveats, some of them unfounded, IMHO). *If* that
goal cannot be accomplished, Richard's alternative is to develop a new
package for the same purpose. I can't see why Jonas or anyone else could
be offended by someone starting a competing project.
Really, guys, you are making a drama out of nothing.
BTW, I'm convinced that it is possible to create a new, original Git
frontend that improves upon Magit on a significant way. That said, Magit
is good enough.
- Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Filipe Silva, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Óscar Fuentes, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Filipe Silva, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, John Yates, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Filipe Silva, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Karl Fogel, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Filipe Silva, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Karl Fogel, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Filipe Silva, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing, Paul Eggert, 2017/07/13
- Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing,
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