From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: github.com@gnu.support Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [syl20bnr/spacemacs] Proposal to improve GPL compliance (#14444) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:08:55 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28909"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: "syl20bnr/spacemacs" Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 11:17:30 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1lHOZN-0007Ov-Sf for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:17:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50288 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHOZM-00017u-T4 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34816) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHOVu-0005qf-AA for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:42399) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lHOVs-0000St-5O for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.141.203]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E083.00000000603F615D.00007B3C; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:13:48 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=github.com@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-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:614 Archived-At: * Eli-Zaretskii [2021-03-03 10:47]: > So if Spacemacs adds a `COPYING` file which is GPLv3, and adds the > missing copyright notices to the files it provides, the problem is > solved, right? License in the distribution should be there, of course. But each source file has to have copyright notice as how it is explained in the license as that will give clear information to people that software is free software and that there is no warranties. Stating only "GPLv3" means nothing in itself, and implies that receiver is supposed to know what it the license. It is unclear for the end receiver of the software.