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[72.10.128.104]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id fg15-20020a05622a580f00b0034456277e3asm10357066qtb.89.2022.09.01.06.12.13 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:12:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Maxim Cournoyer To: Maxime Devos Cc: =?utf-8?B?5a6L5paH5q2m?= , guix-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Clarify the license field of the package References: <87a67wabwf.fsf@envs.net> <446d3577-8137-8346-a87b-6453c999eb1c@telenet.be> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:12:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <446d3577-8137-8346-a87b-6453c999eb1c@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:38:10 +0200") Message-ID: <871qsv9r2r.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::834; envelope-from=maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com; helo=mail-qt1-x834.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 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(Such things can > happen when incorporating code from other, differently-licensed, > projects). My personal take on this is that I find little value in listing 50 lesser licenses in the license fields if the effective license of the whole built project would require to be GPL, say. In that case I would find it sufficient to say the program is gpl3+, say, with a comment mentioning there are other non-copyleft licenses involved but that the GPL license wins. In my view that is more useful and tidy. Thanks, Maxim