Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Philippe Vaucher]

> > It is not terrible lot of work for people to deal with those issues,
> > but I wouldn't assume a simple program can.
>
> The better option is to stop requiring copyright paperwork.
> It is harmful to the Emacs project.

Do copyright paperwork really protect Emacs from anything anyway? I
never saw any problems in other open source/free/libre softwares which
didn't do that. It's for sure a big hurdle to new contributors.

(I'm not saying they are useless, I just don't see the point
pragmatically. Don't get upset please, just explain it to me :-)