From: Naga Malleswari <nagamalli@riseup.net>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 40040@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40040] Resubmission of patch for Package Description for CRAN Package r-crochet
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:31:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09fa48e5-d13d-6c5d-e29d-229a2d8eb890@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200319185322.4864a991@scratchpost.org>
On 19/03/20 11:23 pm, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi Naga,
>
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:05:35 +0530
> Naga Malleswari <nagamalli@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>>> Also, we are using automated tools to apply these patches. For that to work
>>> right without manual fiddling, please put eventual mail text below the "---"
>>> and above the "diff" (so it's filtered out by the automated tool).
>> Actually i dint get the "Eventual mail text" part. All i have is this in
>> the patch file
> Nevermind, I'll just edit it.
>
>> Yes, you are correct. I have downloaded package description through
>> guix import cran -r <package>. This resulted expat licence.
>>
>> But its showing as MIT in the following link.
>>
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/crochet/
> Hmm, that looks better. Weird.
>
> But just judging from https://github.com/agrueneberg/crochet , I wouldn't
> have thought that that was under MIT license. The only mention there
> is in the DESCRIPTION file. Is that enough for Guix?
>
>> The authors github page shows a file licence. Does it mean there is no
>> proper licensing applied for the package? In that case what should we do.
> Let's wait until someone knowledgeable in CRAN posts.
>
> Could you open an issue on https://github.com/agrueneberg/crochet asking
> them to put an Expat license file into the project if that's their intention?
I will do that. Meanwhile i will write package definition another
package. Would that be a correct?
>
>> r-isoband is showing expat in guix import, MIT in website(
>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/isoband/index.html) , git page
>> shows a file https://github.com/wilkelab/isoband
> That has a file LICENSE.md which makes the situation a lot clearer
> for that package.
Understood.
But r-hrbrthmes package in cran.scm no license file is found.
https://github.com/hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes
>
>> MIT [...] Expat
> MIT is an ambiguous reference, actually it can be either Expat or X11.
>
> See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
--
Regards
NagaMalli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-19 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-14 18:16 [bug#40064] Resubmission of patch for Package Description for CRAN Package r-crochet Naga Malleswari
2020-03-14 22:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-03-15 12:33 ` Naga Malli CH
2020-03-17 9:50 ` [bug#40040] " Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-19 8:13 ` Naga Malleswari
2020-03-19 11:38 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-19 17:35 ` Naga Malleswari
2020-03-19 17:53 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-19 18:01 ` Naga Malleswari [this message]
2020-03-20 17:40 ` Naga Malleswari
2020-03-21 13:18 ` bug#40040: " Danny Milosavljevic
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