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Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages
From: |
Jonas Bernoulli |
Subject: |
Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:48:11 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 25.2.1 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > Also I am under the impression that things are getting better, not
> > worse. A higher percentage of new packages specify a license than in
> > the old days.
>
> This might be very significant. Would you like to describe the
> comparison more precisely?
>
> For instance, what is the pool of packages you're analyzing? All
> packages in GitHub? All Emacs packages? Something else?
All Emacs packages known to me.
> What time periods did you use for analysis, for each time period, what
> was the fraction with licenses?
I didn't say "analyse" but "impression" ;-)
While I do intend to thoroughly analyse the data in the future, I don't
currently have the time to do that. I am quite busy improving the
*current* licensing situation by contacting authors. Once that is fully
on track, I can concentrate on other important things again, like
talking to you about including Magit it in Elpa for example. And then I
also have some priorities of my own.
> Thank you very much. It's possible that your efforts are responsible
> for the improvement, if it is in Emacs packages.
You are welcome!
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, (continued)
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Ivan Andrus, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/30
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Achim Gratz, 2017/07/31
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/30
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages,
Jonas Bernoulli <=
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Karl Fogel, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/29
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/30
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/17
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/29