Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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?