From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:06:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87sh1cnw03.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20181009181740.1f88bbf2@alma-ubu> <20181011205502.2f2f433a@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAgIe-0001vs-GD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:07:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAgIW-0003il-4S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:07:05 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAgIV-0003ef-Ma for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:07:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <20181011205502.2f2f433a@alma-ubu> 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: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_H=C3=B6fling?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Bj=C3=B6rn, > 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