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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ruby-libxml and bioruby.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:44:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150915134405.GA3056@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=Rwfag5s35ycLdmcJ5H0NjnU=2QJ58z=iJowqW31VDBs812w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:58:28AM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
> > +    (home-page "http://bioruby.org/")
> > +    ;; Code is released under Ruby license, except for setup
> > +    ;; (LGPLv2.1+), scripts in samples (GPL2 and GPL2+)
> > +    (license (list license:ruby license:lgpl2.1+ license:gpl2
> > +                   license:gpl2+ ))))
> 
> Wouldn't this make the collective work GPL2+?  Ludo or Mark, can you
> weigh in here?

I don't think so. 98% of the code is under the Ruby license, including
the libraries and the Ruby shell. Only a few small scripts have other
licenses. I would argue these scripts are hardly used, including setup
:)

Pj.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15 12:15 [PATCH] gnu: Add ruby-libxml and bioruby Pjotr Prins
2015-09-15 12:58 ` Thompson, David
2015-09-15 13:19   ` Pjotr Prins
2015-09-15 14:39     ` Thompson, David
2015-09-17  5:24       ` Pjotr Prins
2015-09-17  5:37       ` [PATCH] gnu: Add ruby-libxml Pjotr Prins
2015-09-19 16:34         ` Thompson, David
2015-09-17  6:17       ` [PATCH] gnu: Add ruby-libxml and bioruby Pjotr Prins
2015-09-19 16:42         ` Thompson, David
2015-09-15 13:44   ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-15 12:16 Pjotr Prins
2015-09-15 12:24 ` Pjotr Prins

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