From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16250: Feature request: package license information and home page Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:12:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="205195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Dave Abrahams , "16250@debbugs.gnu.org" <16250@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 14 18:28:24 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hmhMN-000qvR-BF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33190 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7a-00076p-OD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7X-00076W-RF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7W-0001tE-PK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7W-0001t6-LM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7W-0003Ef-Dt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16250 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 16250-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16250.156312077912428 (code B ref 16250); Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16250) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jul 2019 16:12:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45695 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7S-0003EJ-Lq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wr1-f66.google.com ([209.85.221.66]:40532) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmh7Q-0003Dy-83 for 16250@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wr1-f66.google.com with SMTP id r1so14546808wrl.7 for <16250@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:12:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-transfer-encoding; bh=q859hoaQ3ch8nEfOau/U4OAYSMBoRKXjBhPIuG0/9/o=; b=NphYrnSs53UEr3CAcnGbbHT4cnpx5fFtFuYCV98hQo0luUopH3t45c+jYgyA9Ig0au Z/BIdrf1szZHf6UzaYyYofs+8gUiIVzutYy44B/+N1UZ9Bc/u4HVxmpxyZ+N/6vb3wsj xhHVYyWD5RI0ZgPZET1/l22/CrIoYWkgRoVT6idjZKLxKeBsx7qMBIEnBeICUhhoLOeg f3O/EiulSOBZDJqmPrxqmgKsj09lu2TanzaSRCDcqu2Da5EtV0WY1wXCUPrB8BOUUwT/ 0zQL0SAx26LUyb7NTWDkOmPjK+Pl2+CU+KMzp5TD0sMM8BEP60moXzGNsz0KHxSJtm8k oCcw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXWPSWvTcEf+AqyZO+DITc7KfIsKKrJQOiz6cMkHq548t1brE+w XCjhFidJINs06YC5PDNyTU0LOoy4EEGCRq4HFUE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzvIqVcNuQyFETN0RKsPxOh/VFaS6zq+iOnScsbMlHzXrt43IvHMv0u6ajq9tT21xbhV7JAixXE5qWObX6TiSs= X-Received: by 2002:adf:e541:: with SMTP id z1mr22191506wrm.48.1563120770431; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:12:50 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163005 Archived-At: tags 16250 + wontfix close 16250 thanks Dave Abrahams writes: > There should be an easy way to find out the > license information and other metadata about a package before installing > it. Ideally this information should show up in the results of > package-menu-describe-package Stefan Monnier writes: >>> > Some people (like me) are picky about the license terms of software t= hat >>> > they download, especially in source form. >>> Give me some examples of Elisp packages where that would be useful. >> Any package is a potential example. > > 99.9% of Elisp packages are licensed under the GPL. I doubt these would > be convincing examples of the need to check the licensing info. > And the remaining 0.1% is licensed under a GPL-compatible license, BTW > (because any Elisp package necessarily links to GPL'd code, either > Emacs's or XEmacs's, so it's basically illegal to distribute Elisp code > under anything else than a GPL-compatible license). > >> If you could explain what you=E2=80=99re after maybe I could say >> something useful. > > An example package where it can be useful to know what license is used. That was in 2013, and I agree with Stefan that this feature doesn't sound w= orth it. It's all GPL compatible. FWIW, Debian doesn't show this in aptitude either. The homepage is already available in package-menu-describe-package. I've therefore closed this as wontfix. If anyone disagrees, feel free to re-open. Best regards, Stefan Kangas