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Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Ema
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:07:51 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:53 -0400
> Cc: Yuan Fu <address@hidden>, ndame <address@hidden>,
> Emacs developers <address@hidden>
>
> The mindset on github is one that doesn't encourage careful
> consideration of licensing and authorship but instead encourages
> "happy sharing" [ Paradoxically, the FSF's insistence on tracking
> copyright assignments makes this very problematic (even tho, "happy
> sharing" is really what we all want to do) unless it's between people
> who we know have signed the copyright paperwork. ]
I don't see that as a paradox. The world of Free Software is much
larger than the world of GNU projects. The FSF is advancing the
former to encourage "happy sharing", but exercise extra caution with
the latter.
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, ndame, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Yuan Fu, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, ndame, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Tim Cross, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/23
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Phillip Lord, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/26
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/24
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/04/25
- Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/04/25