From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:45:15 +0000 Message-ID: <057D5C84-2601-440A-BDD2-0183E614493A@gnu.support> References: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16985"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, boruch_baum@gmx.com, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Vasilij Schneidermann , Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 07:47:01 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kohdN-0004HK-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:47:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46386 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kohdM-0006aZ-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:47:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kohcO-00068H-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:41017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kohcM-0008T8-GH; Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.127.175.98] ([::ffff:197.157.34.185]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_CHACHA20_POLY1305) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000002FEA2.000000005FD70A02.00001D03; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:45:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260789 Archived-At: On that I did not look into original packages, but only those distributed b= y Melpa and I do think that many without license on Melpa have their licens= e somewhere=2E It does not change the condition that distributing packages without licens= e is license violations, and that nonGnu ELPA has to do it better without c= omparing to Melpa=2E On December 13, 2020 8:56:09 AM UTC, Vasilij Schneidermann wrote: >> If someone is willing to focus on organizing this effort, it might do >> some good=2E One very good step would be to convince GitHub to >identify >> packages with the modern SPDX identifiers=2E > >GitHub does already try to recognize the license used by a repository >using heuristics=2E These can be programmatically fetched: > > $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd=2Egithub=2Ev3+json' \ > https://api=2Egithub=2Ecom/repos/melpa/melpa/license | grep spdx > "spdx_id": "GPL-3=2E0", > >Repeating this process for some packages mentioned previously in this >discussion (the 0x0 one has been omitted as it's hosted on sr=2Eht): > > $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd=2Egithub=2Ev3+json' \ >https://api=2Egithub=2Ecom/repos/davidshepherd7/aggressive-fill-paragraph= -mode/license >| grep spdx =20 > "spdx_id": "GPL-3=2E0", > $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd=2Egithub=2Ev3+json' \ >https://api=2Egithub=2Ecom/repos/alan-platform/AlanForEmacs/license | gre= p >spdx=20 > "spdx_id": "MIT", > $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd=2Egithub=2Ev3+json' \ > https://api=2Egithub=2Ecom/repos/rolandwalker/anaphora/license | grep sp= dx > $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd=2Egithub=2Ev3+json' \ >https://api=2Egithub=2Ecom/repos/davidshepherd7/anki-mode/license | grep >spdx > "spdx_id": "AGPL-3=2E0", > >That gives me a more precise picture than Jean Louis' analysis I've >taken these packages from=2E The only license that couldn't be identified >is for the anaphora repository which doesn't have a LICENSE file, but >instead embeds a public domain notice inside the source code=2E Jean