From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: NPM importer Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:01:05 -0600 Message-ID: <87va4qxf8e.fsf@posteo.net> References: <70F182DB-C157-4763-A4C6-89985545661C@lepiller.eu> <0e5afb2d-c182-6be4-ba2d-6a6f7dd45ac9@riseup.net> <1150DF84-4952-4401-A8D0-3E05A4D0EB74@lepiller.eu> <23f36a0d-a5ef-5457-1d8e-61fbebda91c4@riseup.net> <87zhu3b41w.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPaYw-0001Hy-As for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:01:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPaYq-0001Mr-GI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:01:34 -0500 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:55913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPaYp-0001K5-7e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:01:27 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67B43160061 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:01:23 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87zhu3b41w.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Mike Gerwitz Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mike Gerwitz writes: > The JavaScript community has poor licensing practices, and the culture > is somewhat hostile to the ideals of the free software movement (they > focus on permissive licensing to empower non-free software developers > using those libraries). To say the least. It will take a good deal of implementing a license checker on the importer, as well as human verification to ensure that we are maintaining a high ethical standard. Brett Gilio