From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add German Aspell dictionary. Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:50:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9a3wmcc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1472321979-10150-1-git-send-email-john@darrington.wattle.id.au> <1472321979-10150-3-git-send-email-john@darrington.wattle.id.au> <20160828092045.GG26988@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <20160828124104.GA27453@jocasta.intra> <87a8fw2cs2.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:36587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bePlr-0001x1-Ni for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:50:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bePln-0004IR-Ha for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:50:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a8fw2cs2.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:35:25 +0300") 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: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington Alex Kost skribis: > John Darrington (2016-08-28 15:41 +0300) wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:20:45PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> > +(define-public aspell-dict-de >> > + (aspell-dictionary "de" "German" >> > + #:version "20030222-1" >> > + #:sha256 >> > + (base32 >> > + "01p92qj66cqb346gk7hjfynaap5sbcn85xz07kjfd= q623ghr8v5s"))) >> don't forget your copyright line. Otherwise looks good. >> >> I didn't forget. But I don't consider these 6 lines to be in any respect >> novel, creative or original. The FSF guidelines for what is regarded as >> "legally significant" for copyright purposes mentions the limit of 15 li= nes. >> >> In fact, I challenge anyone to offer a definition of aspell-dict-de which >> works in Guix AND satisfies our rather strict coding style, and does not >> differ from the above, except in whitespace. >> >> In other words, there is nothing novel or creative in what I have writte= n. >> Thus, is would be dishonest (perhaps illegal?) for me to claim copyright= on >> this work. > > I think this patch deserves it. My understanding is we just don't have > a policy on adding copyright lines: some people add a copyright line > even for a simple package update. John is right; simple package updates are not legally significant either. But then I think =E2=80=9Ctoo many=E2=80=9D copyright lines is bet= ter than not enough, and it=E2=80=99s not worth bothering. Ludo=E2=80=99.