From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnushogi and xshogi Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:19:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20170223051919.GA14149@jocasta.intra> References: <1487790904-9384-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <20170222215807.GA17166@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgloc-00061v-A3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:19:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cglob-0000D0-At for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:19:42 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170222215807.GA17166@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. =20 > +(define-public xshogi =20 [...] =20 > + ;; Contains a copy of GPLv3 but the licence notices simply > + ;; state "GNU General Public Licence" without specifying a vers= ion. > + (license license:gpl1+))) =20 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." =20 You are correct. That is why I put gpl1+ =20 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= =20 where upstream permits a package to be distributed under a choice of licenc= es, we simply present that choice to our users. We don't - at least I haven't = seen=20 any instances of it - choose a particular one that suits us, unless there i= s a=20 good reason for doing that. J' --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAliucNcACgkQimdxnC3oJ7MWxwCfbo+/CB75NEi7rFXPoOj266QW pUoAnj8QgGXqE2IR8MXf1HGVBKMUFez/ =fKpt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--