Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads

[Kaushal Modi]

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017, 6:29 AM Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:

Doesn't sound great: the message would be shown to the users, and there
are much more of them than the package developers. It will be a nuisance.

+1

> I have a feeling that a lot of
> package authors choose MELPA because the barrier to entry is so low, and they
> may not realize how easy it is to get it into Emacs as well.

Try asking the MELPA developers about including that paragraph (or a
modified version) somewhere near the instructions for publishing
packages to MELPA.

+1

To add, instead of emailing emacs-devel, we can ask them to email address@hidden directly. 

The instructions can look something like this:

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In order to contribute to Emacs (or GNU Elpa, Org-mode, etc), it is required to assign your copyright to FSF. 

You need to send an email to address@hidden asking that you'd like to assign your copyrights to FSF.

Here's a sample of an email that one can send:

> Hello,

> I visited this site: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html#Copyright-Papers

> I would like to contribute to GNU Emacs.

> What are the copyright papers that I would need to sign?

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Kaushal Modi