From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnushogi and xshogi
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:19:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170223051919.GA14149@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170222215807.GA17166@jasmine>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:58:07PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
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."
You are correct. That is why I put gpl1+
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.
I don't have a strong opinion here. But there is a precedent in Guix, that
where upstream permits a package to be distributed under a choice of licences,
we simply present that choice to our users. We don't - at least I haven't seen
any instances of it - choose a particular one that suits us, unless there is a
good reason for doing that.
J'
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-22 19:15 [PATCH] gnu: Add gnushogi and xshogi John Darrington
2017-02-22 21:58 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-23 5:19 ` John Darrington [this message]
2017-02-23 17:06 ` Leo Famulari
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