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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:06:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh1cnw03.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181011205502.2f2f433a@alma-ubu>


Hi Björn,

> The only reference I
> found is some older Trisquel discussion claiming some compiler is only
> open source, but not nonfree:

The extension pack is available only under proprietary licenses i.e. it
is nonfree.

The BIOS compiler since version 4.2 is released under the Watcom
license, which demands that for many private uses the source code must
be published.  This makes it nonfree:

    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Watcom

--
Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-11 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-09 13:08 [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Laura Lazzati
2018-10-09 16:17 ` Björn Höfling
2018-10-10 16:41   ` Laura Lazzati
2018-10-10 18:12     ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-11  1:24       ` Laura Lazzati
2018-10-11  9:24         ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-11 14:31           ` Laura Lazzati
2018-10-11 17:05             ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-11 17:40               ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-11 19:57               ` Laura Lazzati
2018-10-12  6:31                 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-12 12:35                   ` Laura Lazzati
2018-10-11 18:55             ` Björn Höfling
2018-10-11 19:06               ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-10-11 19:07               ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-10-09 22:25 ` Alex Vong
2018-10-10 16:44   ` Laura Lazzati

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