From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: gajim: License is "version 3 only". Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:46:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87funqztuq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20161019045005.3678-1-arunisaac@systemreboot.net> <20161019172350.GD8998@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxJIb-0007uP-6o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:46:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxJIW-0002ly-B9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:46:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161019172350.GD8998@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:23:50 -0400") 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 Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:20:04AM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: >> * gnu/packages/messaging.scm (gajim)[license]: Change to GPL3. > > Thanks for checking on this! > > Indeed, the bulk of the license headers say "version 3 only", so I think > gajim is GPL3. But, I found a few files that are GPL3+, and at least one > 2-clause BSD licensed file in 'src/command-system'. > > Can you revise this patch to give a license list, with comments > explaining that the package is GPL3 but includes some > differently-licensed components? Given that the combination is GPLv3-only in practice, I think it=E2=80=99s enough to write =E2=80=98gpl3=E2=80=99 (I know we=E2=80=99ve been somewhat = inconsistent here=E2=80=A6). Ludo=E2=80=99.