From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnushogi and xshogi Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:58:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20170222215807.GA17166@jasmine> References: <1487790904-9384-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48291) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgevl-0003SE-2W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:58:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgevi-0000aS-1G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:58:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1487790904-9384-1-git-send-email-jmd@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" To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:15:04PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * gnu/packages/games.scm (gnushogi, xshogi): New variables. > +(define-public xshogi [...] > + ;; Contains a copy of GPLv3 but the licence notices simply > + ;; state "GNU General Public Licence" without specifying a version. > + (license license:gpl1+))) Section 14 of the GPL says "If the Program does not specify a version number of the GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation." https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Do we want to use version 1 of the GPL? I don't fully understand the issues with it, but it's an unusual choice.