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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add psutils.
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:43:38 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Montag, 21. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> > Does it qualify as "bsd-like"?
>> It looks like BSD-3 to me, or at least =E2=80=9CBSD-like=E2=80=9D.
>
> Sort of. Except that the second clause states that source code needs to b=
e=20
> provided, whereas BSD just states that binary distributions need to keep=
=20
> the copyright notice.

Oh, OK.

> I could also add an entry to the licenses file, but I am afraid we might=
=20
> end up with almost as many licenses as packages.

Agreed, that=E2=80=99s a problem.  :-)

>> > If not, would it make sense to add a license "other" to licenses.scm,
>> > which takes the same parameters as "bsd-like"?
>> I think (guix licenses) should export the constructor, but under the
>> name =E2=80=98make-license=E2=80=99 to avoid clashes with the =E2=80=98l=
icense=E2=80=99 field in
>> =E2=80=98package=E2=80=99 records.
>
> Is this not exactly how bsd-style operates?

Yes, but it=E2=80=99s only for BSD-style licenses.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.