From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Subject: Re: New importer for GNU packages Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:25:30 GMT Message-ID: <201411112225.sABMPUfx014533@freefriends.org> References: <87389pit9f.fsf@gnu.org> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJsZ-0004M7-BY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:25:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJsT-0002TM-2O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:25:39 -0500 Received: from frenzy.freefriends.org ([66.54.153.139]:48429 helo=freefriends.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoJsS-0002Su-LL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:25:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87389pit9f.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: dthompson2@worcester.edu, guix-devel@gnu.org > It's unfortunate that the GNU project doesn't maintain certain metadata > such as the license for each project. To the best of my knowledge, the Directory is intended to have that information (and plenty of other things too), although I don't doubt that plenty of updates are needed. In the interests of not maintaining the same thing in multiple places, I have never wanted to set up a separate place for it. karl