Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Jean Louis]

That is maybe your way of finding free software. Since 1999 I find it from 
distributions and if I don't believe it enough I will look into license.

I never go to proprietary software catalogue to find free software. Today we 
know by work of fully free and FSF endorsed Distributions which packages are 
free and which not.

Easy



On January 8, 2021 7:06:38 AM UTC, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
>> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, bugs@gnu.support, arthur.miller@live.com,
>>      rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangets@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:17 -0500
>> 
>>    I presented a practical problem I have every day in my role as a
>GNU
>>    maintainer.  Why can't you respond to that specific problem, which
>is
>>    both of practical interest and of relevance to Emacs?
>> 
>> Because I don't see how it is a problem that the GNU project is going
>> to solve.  Nor is it one _I_ wish to help you solve either, because I
>> think non-free software is bad so I'm won't be helping with that.  It
>> is also not a task that you must solve as a GNU maintainer, you can
>> fully ignore it infact if you so want to -- but that is up to you.
>
>How can I ignore a package before I _know_ that it is non-free?  And
>how can I know it's non-free except by looking at it?