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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1630917087; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=LKl1d5tGtDe5CunihRebjvFoAtEbenyS77L9PnCByyk=; b=VUSpclc/ASiZqIkMvVqBZhfkyWll4szqMNnzAEKS+rremp2an3OUdVlt5QhugFBcz06xQy nwQq2o9YvP4HqmFer/06fQHcSM0UMbpra7jDhThlmlf+A3GDdI/uVkFjKVAMYE+Z6WYMo5 8kA2JiJim+uAuDKc4R7Ava4vCAmwords+ZTXKhwHYJyFBcCAqTRn2YPhqxxvHHTlyeNYty ZHPRtDrFnKCxoHblHfSmsaDIVn2CjSvZzaGeBWVC4QjUTPLHnANQpvkBOkQleJco8mBtcd fGyb/NyE5h0Eg3TmF7J8kwKG3yytKlhq3YI2jLSiVY1XO6olRG5TuF8GO1fZYw== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1630917087; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=bAM8MUlL0t2IiZSphtKMKh8LQd6EwMtXdsQ/nR0QU1Myp6tQlcTrucOWUUeBYSBQgj7YLQ 7VVMtIX6zc2opQYRjTrx6p5CNZKIwCmZJEYmv/V9euR633HkUKaXmAlpGBIfjyRwhpM0RQ ZziglAWxlznnk0t5QdDoNcqIaNU9SELtoeZqLBRohSkRvziC6IvBYzIK/FDfKDJuKhJ1au TmxPbPeOUt4PCyjFtzQI7wp5FtJm9sfJKZsezEw/mofiv/4CrIaslYcXacUc3/MAo6ZUfF /5aBknUb7StgB8kCwCq5sZ9cOrR917gsQOIAOH6DO9/crFDJmJ1lSpg17bVYrg== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=HnYQEWyn; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.11 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=HnYQEWyn; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: CA080CA78 X-Spam-Score: -3.11 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: 67Ey2bwJYSBv Hi Maxime, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 23:42, Maxime Devos wrote: > This patch adds a 'suspect-license' linter detecting some suspicious > values in the license fields of linux modules: I do not know if it is worth to add a linter for really few corner cases, IMHO. > For zfs, the issue is the CDDL license. For the others, the issue > is the gpl3+ license. See the article by the SFLC for why this linter > detets ZFS: > > . The issue is about distributing binaries, IIUC. From my point of view, a such linter should check X-license packages using any build-system but =E2=80=9Clinked=E2=80=9C to incompatible X-license packages. Well, I do no= t know if it is worth to automate this since it appears to me really sparse corner cases. Cheers, simon