Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06.01.2021 23:18, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> The GNU project doesn't want to give non-free software the remote
> changes of success, so mentioning or linking to it unless it is very
> well known would be working against its own goals.  This is all
> written down in the GNU coding standards, what GNU project should or
> shouldn't do, in the now so overly quoted section 'References to
> Non-Free Software and Documentation'.

If your interpretation is right (and I'm not sure it is), think this 
kind of "ostrich" approach to the adversary seems like the most puzzling 
part of the GNU policy.