Re: Improving GNU ELPA

[Phillip Lord]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > > Typically things like incorrect copyright notices or compilation 
> breakage.
>
>   > Does ELPA not check for the copyright? I.e. if it's incorrect, it will
>   > be wrong in the git repo only and not in the distributed ELPA package.
>
> We could make ELPA check that files have the correct copyright notices.
> We could also make it check that they have the correct license notices.
> It would be useful to implement sending us warnings for that.
>
> Would anyone like to implement this?

It already does this.

Incorrect copyright notices are nothing urgent, since they need not go
live to elpa.gnu.org -- they will be present only in git. So not an
urgent need for changes.

Phil