Re: [elpa] externals/denote 51bd02b95c 1/2: Add initial version of 'denote-rename-buffer' extension

[Philip Kaludercic]

Ruijie Yu via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> ELPA Syncer <elpasync@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> diff --git a/denote-rename-buffer.el b/denote-rename-buffer.el
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000000..3582f33e9b
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/denote-rename-buffer.el
>> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
>> +;;; denote-rename-buffer.el --- Rename Denote buffers to be shorter and 
>> easier to read -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
>> +
>> +;; Copyright (C) 2023  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +
>> +;; Author: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
>> +;; Maintainer: Denote Development <~protesilaos/denote@lists.sr.ht>
>> +;; URL: https://git.sr.ht/~protesilaos/denote
>> +;; Mailing-List: https://lists.sr.ht/~protesilaos/denote
>> +
>> +;; This file is NOT part of GNU Emacs.
>
> I'm curious, should GNU elpa packages be considered part of Emacs or
> not?  I have previously contributed to pyim, a GNU elpa package, whose
> maintainer asked me whether I had FSF CA before including my proposed
> changes, and whose package header says it is part of Emacs.

I believe this is a mistake, the package is part of the GNU ELPA
repository, where all packages are regarded to be part of GNU Emacs.  It
might be that Prot used a template to generate this file, and that the
template defaulted to "... is not a part ...".