From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Jam: which licence is this?
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 23:12:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg343kmk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kflrb1t.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 02 May 2021 00:53:07 -0400")
Hi,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> For most purposes, the relevant question is: which license(s) cover the
> source code, because that's where users will want to exercise the four
> freedoms of free software. The license(s) that cover the package
> outputs are of far less interest, because that's not where users will
> exercise the four freedoms.
>
> The 'license' field can only mean one of these two things, and I think
> it's fairly clear which one it should be. Moreover, I think that this
> is what it has always meant in Guix. If not, that's a problem.
>
> Perhaps Ludovic would like to clarify?
I think Leo’s description reflects the initial intent (I believe this
was discussed a few times on the mailing lists in the early years).
The GNU Hello example Leo gave is a good one: we state the license that
applies to what gets installed and do not list licenses applicable to
auxiliary build scripts, say.
HTH!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-02 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-25 6:15 Jam: which licence is this? Jack Hill
2021-04-25 7:16 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-04-25 17:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-25 17:35 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-25 20:37 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-26 16:24 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-02 4:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-05-02 15:20 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-07 18:31 ` The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?) Chris Marusich
2021-05-07 19:23 ` The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package Chris Marusich
2021-05-08 10:16 ` The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?) Leo Prikler
2021-05-08 11:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-05-08 11:22 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-08 20:52 ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-08 23:04 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-09 8:33 ` Maxime Devos
2021-05-02 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-04-25 17:42 ` Jam: which licence is this? Mark H Weaver
2021-04-28 13:20 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-04-25 20:23 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-04-25 20:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-04-25 20:53 ` Jack Hill
2021-04-25 21:04 ` Jack Hill
2021-04-26 14:36 ` Jack Hill
2021-05-02 5:02 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-25 21:41 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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