Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add eschalot.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 03:49:36PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> TL;DR: only run the test suite if you own a cluster, super computer or
> otherwise much computation power which will be bored by this
> hashing. Everyone else will spend MANY hours on this, which is why make
> check/test is disabled.

How many is MANY? ;)

> +;; There is no release candidate but commits point out a version number.
> +(define-public eschalot
> +  (let ((commit "0bf31d88a11898c19b1ed25ddd2aff7b35dbac44")
> +        (revision "1"))
> +    (package
> +      (name "eschalot")
> +      (version (string-append "1.2.0-" revision "." (string-take commit 7)))
> +               (url "https://github.com/schnabear/eschalot")

I think this is okay.

> +      ;; Licenses are various as eschalots cites the applications it was based on
> +      ;; or which it was influenced by, eschalot author says the application itself
> +      ;; is under a BSD license, the combination of all could be seen as expat or
> +      ;; a variation of such.  It is not clear.  FIXME: Specify license(s) used.
> +      (license (license:non-copyleft
> +                "file://LICENSE"
> +                "See LICENSE in the distribution for the licenses which apply.")))))

It uses the ISC license and the Expat license.