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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: Emacs packages, GitHub and software freedom |
Date: | Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:48:09 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Sorry for that. But the only thing I ask in this thread is what to do > with GNU ELPA packages on unethical GitHub? We should encourage use of more friendly hosting sites. [ BTW, I don't think calling Github "evil" will help in any way. ] I'd be happy to hear suggestions how we can do that (e.g. add additional features to elpa.gnu.org to better integrate packages hosted on sr.ht?). > It's considered unacceptable for hosting any free software (including > GNU software) by the Free Software Foundation. GNU ELPA itself doesn't rely on Github's proprietary code (it accesses Github only via the standard Git protocol) and users of GNU ELPA packages don't really need to know or care where's the upstream (they have access to a complete Git mirror right in `elpa.git` and every package normally comes with an email address to contact the maintainer without having to go through Github). Stefan
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