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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:09:02AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:

[...]

>      > +    (description "Inkscape is a free vector graphics editor simil=
ar to
>      > +proprietary competitors. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of S=
calable
>      > +Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the nat=
ive format.")=20=20=20
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      I removed the ???free??? and the reference to proprietary competitor=
s.
>
> Fair enough.  The blurb on the website mentions them by name. I decided t=
o drop
> the names.  If you want to omit any mention altogether, I don't have any =
objection.

Yeah, what we agreed on long ago was to not mention =E2=80=9Cfree=E2=80=9D =
in
descriptions (or similar), because everything is free in the distro.
Also the GCS have long recommended against referring to non-free
software, and it clearly doesn=E2=80=99t bring much here (the situation may=
 be
different for software that aims for interoperability with non-free
software, like LibreDWG or Octave.)

>      > +    (license license:gpl2))) ;; Somewhat ambiguous whether v2 or =
v2+ is intended
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      It???s actually GPLv2+ since the source files do not specify the ver=
sion.
>
> It kind of does indirectly. It says "Under GPL - See the file COPYING" and
> COPYING contains the text for v2.   I thought it safer to assume v2 only.

GPLv2 reads:

  If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you
  may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.