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Re: [ELPA] New package: kixtart-mode
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Morgan Willcock |
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Re: [ELPA] New package: kixtart-mode |
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Wed, 09 Nov 2022 23:48:25 +0100 |
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On Wednesday, November 09, 2022 22:04 GMT, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Would there be any issues in adding the package?
>
> There is one issue, yes: is KiXtart Free Software?
> According to Wikipedia, the license is "Closed source Careware".
> And indeed, I can't find any source code on http://www.kixtart.org/.
> If that's indeed proprietary code, then I think we probably wouldn't
> want to host `kixtart-mode` on (Non)GNU ELPA.
There is no dependency or inter-op with the interpreter, and the package
was developed independently - since the source code is not available it
is also impossible for me to create any link to it.
But if this is the final decision I'll live with it.
> Find below my sig a suggested patch to fix a few minor issues I found
> along the way (the main one is arguably the way `kixtart-tempo-tags`
> is passed to `tempo-define-template`).
Thanks for taking a look. Are you happy if I take your patch, regardless
of where the package ends up?
Re: [ELPA] New package: kixtart-mode, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/11/10