Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs

[João Távora]

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 7:54 PM Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> After thinking about that for a while, I came to the sad conclusion
> that I no longer understand what is the relation between GNU ELPA and
> the Emacs project.

GNU ELPA distributes some Emacs source files as :core-type
package.el packages.  This means that we can fix bugs and evolve
features in those files in Emacs master and not having to wait many
months until they make into the next core release.  This has proven
invaluable for the development of Eglot, a GNU ELPA package, which
depends on jsonrpc.el and flymake.el, which are in the core.  Bugs
can often be fixed in those files and they'll be available to users the
next day.  I don't know if this counts as a meaningful relationship,
but it is  extremely useful nonetheless and we should expand it (in
fact I discussed it with Dmitry and Stefan I'm going to do it soon for
eldoc.el, xref.el and project.el).

João





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João Távora