Re: copyright issues and derivative work (the case of matlab-mode)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Side note: the current elpa.gnu.org scripts only know how to deal with
>> upstream Git repositories.  In theory they might be able to deal with
>> a Mercurial upstream using `hg::...`, but I wouldn't bet on it working
>> reliably (based on my past experience with the `git-remote-hg` plugin).
>
> In my understanding git-remote-hg is to do things  the other way around:
> access a mercurial repository with git. 

As long as you don't have write access to GNU ELPA/Emacs's repository
then elpa.gnu.org needs to *pull* from the upstream.

> I use the hg-git plugin to push and pull to a git repository using
> mercurial.

Ah, so elpa.gnu.org can pull from that Git.  Great, so there's
no problem.  Sorry 'bout the noise,


        Stefan