From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@envs.net>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Clarify the license field of the package
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:43:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k06rdb2j.fsf@envs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fshizxlv.fsf@protonmail.com> (John Kehayias's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:08:31 +0000")
John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hello 宋文武,
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 05:02 PM, 宋文武 wrote:
>
>> Hello list, I have some questions about the 'license' of a package,
>> currently defined as:
>>
>> The license of the package; a value from ‘(guix licenses)’, or a
>> list of such values.
>>
>> 1. It's the license of source files (guix build -S) or built binary
>> files?
>>
>
> Not a lawyer by any means, so I'm not sure how it works. For sure it
> applies to the source, but after building the binary output will
> contain a LICENSE or COPYING file (always? I would assume). Other than
> that, I don't know :)
Yes, guix distribute both sources and binaries (via substitute). As a
packager, I'm afraid to get that 'license' field wrong...
> [...]
> Those are my guesses/experiences above, hope that is helpful.
Thank you for join discussion!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-29 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-22 9:02 Clarify the license field of the package 宋文武
2022-08-26 18:08 ` John Kehayias
2022-08-29 2:43 ` 宋文武 [this message]
2022-08-26 18:38 ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-29 3:39 ` 宋文武
2022-09-01 13:12 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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