From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Bioconductor package flowPeaks license Artistic 1.0? Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:40:28 +0100 Message-ID: <874kxvqcv7.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87pnlz9lro.fsf@elephly.net> <877e869t80.fsf@elephly.net> <87k16si685.fsf@nckx> <87h81whxmw.fsf@nckx> <87o8w373d7.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iiJSL-0000Av-Bk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:40:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iiJSK-0003LC-0M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:40:40 -0500 Received: from sender4-of-o51.zoho.com ([136.143.188.51]:21159) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iiJSI-00036F-H3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:40:39 -0500 In-reply-to: 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: zimoun Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org zimoun writes: > This fix -- reuse all the free available code and replace the non-free > one -- do not scale. > So the question is: What is the scale we are talking about? How many > packages in Bioconductor? > If it is, say, a couple then it is doable. Or see with the people > managing Bioconductor. > If it is more, then the option is lobbying. :-) In my experience tt happens rarely enough that it appears to scale just fine. Every time it happens is a drag, of course, but only a small percentage of CRAN and Bioconductor packages suffers from problems like that. That=E2=80=99s still an estimated dozens of packages, but it=E2=80= =99s not quite as bad as it may seem. -- Ricardo