Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mesa-demos.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> From 051341d49fae36579ce318ab0b9c245ed084cdae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Taylan=20Ulrich=20Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?=
>  <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:57:51 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: msea: Propagate input libxshmfence.
>
> * gnu/packages/gl.scm (mesa): Propagate input libxshmfence.

[...]

> +        ("libxshmfence" ,libxshmfence)

Please add a margin comment explaining the reason.

> From e1f288dee780b374fc2162eb39d96a50d64964c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Taylan=20Ulrich=20Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?=
>  <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:58:25 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add mesa-demos.
>
> * gnu/packages/gl.scm (mesa-demos): New variable.

[...]

> +    ;; The package contains many source files without a license, some
> +    ;; instances of the expat license, and some X11 style licenses by SGI, so
> +    ;; we consider it to be collectively under the X11 license.

Is there a top-level ‘LICENSE’ or ‘COPYING’ or ‘COPYRIGHT’ file?  If
there is, then the intent is most likely that the files without a
license headers are covered by whatever this top-level file says.

If there is really no indication, that would make the software non-free.

Thanks,
Ludo’.