Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

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For popular packages to be distributed outside of Emacs and ELPA
has some bad consequences:

* We can't change them when we change some part of Emacs that they use.
That makes it hard for us to change interfaces.

* We don't have copyright assignments in them, so we can't move the code
into Emacs.

* They may say things that work against the GNU Project in other ways,
such as by recommending nonfree programs, or by recommending rivals of
GNU packages.

I think therefore that we do more to move the popular packages into
ELPA or Emacs.

Meanwhile, code in Emacs or ELPA should not use external packages.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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