From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giovanni Biscuolo Subject: Re: Difference between Scintilla's license and ISC Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:04:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87sgs58q1i.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> References: <87blytrf6o.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <20190619135241.GA4954@jurong> <87pnn9mz5f.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hde1v-000545-Or for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:05:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hde1q-0002Rl-Pb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:05:49 -0400 Received: from ns13.heimat.it ([46.4.214.66]:52828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hde1m-0001tJ-Io for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:05:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pnn9mz5f.fsf@elephly.net> 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Cc: Nicolas Goaziou --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Guix! Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Andreas Enge writes: > >> I think that the Scintilla license is non-free... >> >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 01:24:15PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and >>> its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, >>>=20 >>> and the ISC license is: >>> Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for >>> any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, >> >> Notice the lack of the little word "with" in the first license. > > Interestingly, Debian includes Scite which includes code under the > Scintilla license (see bottom): > > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/scite/scite_= 3.7.2-1_copyright The correct license name is "Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer", thanks to Wikipedia [1] This is the GNU entry: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#HPND the approved text is here: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:HPND and Scintilla uses that text AFAIU I've added HPND to our gnu/licenses.scm and sent a patch, bug number #36295; give me a go/no go please :-) (I can push it if needed) Happy Guix! Gio'. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software) =2D-=20 Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEERcxjuFJYydVfNLI5030Op87MORIFAl0KaykACgkQ030Op87M ORLang/+NjaHcWEgMjjwDNM7wYEVF4YBDID6Q59Sw59Q0/bwRZiZ5LHQYnRjw3vY 8uo1cOrwqqLKQJwezqBB48yXNE7A2JlXOy4bs4ixAwGZU869IgSlrrt29j1AeB3F dwIoi1/eKDnRiEbcY10izBrD4eYS4RrmBspaCGXOEz9PaqYwuLge5pkMeDu7yVNS Qa15D/9BbkVnWtMjxTUQP3ylYNEoFKPMOlGqakSD6CGFED6APx9Wa/75yqJ4xKKv LNrFlWB2RPol+PDLiEO2mAFChAXxr7vmXELbD5zV5cTlUKDpw5vnzwhM6+yVSI6t v/glKFIgcsRlXeuTSHILmflp75l5kWP0hOsLZhxiBt9U5e7XO33L4J10924NDerS +TkSyBzPEntvPoWEnb86LTP3GOWKwiL0J4DeLbMQHLQenQky0pHIOHSMTkM9FEmb HRfFq3uxTJR95jyKpnLo1DjZAMAmcBz+mdmE/0OZmBkPgJpiWtwX19EffalnBEso H8OxM6SHW2FRwQcsHZ5pbMws/r8bWVZ/jO9jFhy+9eBHrINze+O+B32XVRYb7v4W 4b8jtMb75VNQsTIM3rIIreOHTmmZN6NiQ/4kRWUW/l7UP/59oBK4/udsDj5bsUg/ JEi1vnnPabDGGgQECJOmpx4x9JziL1XPANqvpe5iTY5P9Jz50SI= =vG5i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--