From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add libtsm. Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:52:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20160822215201.GB9557@jasmine> References: <20160822135307.789-1-david@craven.ch> <20160822193347.GB24639@jasmine> <20160822210848.GA30208@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbx8j-0000Es-6B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:52:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbx8e-0003wb-33 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:52:17 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:45602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbx8c-0003vk-TX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:52:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:46:55PM +0200, David Craven wrote: > >> How do I figure out what kind of license they are? > > > > I usually do a web search on a sentence fragment. > > That works very nicely. Thank you! > > What do I do if someone removes a word from a license text? :/ > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software > for any purpose >and< without fee is hereby granted, provided > that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear > in all copies. The new license bars us from redistributing the code for a fee? If so, does that count as free software? > > I also noticed some public domain code. I didn't do a thorough check. > > What is considered a thorough check? Looking at each source file could > take hours on a larger codebase... Sometimes it takes a while...