From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:00:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87shi4z7ps.fsf@bernoul.li> <87zic9zuof.fsf@bernoul.li> <877ezaajme.fsf@bernoul.li> <87shhw2xuv.fsf@bernoul.li> <87a844cmgx.fsf@ernst> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500292996 24908 195.159.176.226 (17 Jul 2017 12:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mats Lidell Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 14:03:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dX4k1-00069F-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:03:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dX4k6-0005yh-RP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dX4hg-0004Zy-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dX4ha-0002gn-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dX4hS-0002Vu-Lc; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dX4hR-0001ua-5M; Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:00:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <87a844cmgx.fsf@ernst> (message from Mats Lidell on Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:37:02 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216770 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks for checking 10 packages. Your report makes the issue completely clear. This one package might actually be ok. > ttl-mode Two-clause BSD licence Is the license properly applied? If so, I guess the license-checking scripts should be fixed to take notice of it. The rest are all real problems of greater or lesser severity. > achievements No license > gap-mode No license > riscv-mode README.md says GPLv3+ but source file lacks license information > zig-mode No license > airline-themes No license > ghc According to LICENSE file: AGPL3 but files with BSD3 exists > darkane-theme No license > kpm-list Home made license!? > google-this Incomplete GPL license For the moment, I don't think I need any more information about the other packages. The overall outlines of the problem are clear enough, and one package more or less in each category won't change it much. I will study the right way to address the situation. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.