From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEzUa-0002BK-Qk for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:02:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEzUY-0004Wy-Vl for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:02:04 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEzUY-0004Wa-G2 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:02:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jEzUY-0007WR-Db for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:02:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#40040] Resubmission of patch for Package Description for CRAN Package r-crochet Resent-Message-ID: References: <54793c0b-ca82-e80c-1da6-b06ea709b091@riseup.net> <20200317105014.754f1303@scratchpost.org> <28572a3c-98f8-d9c9-dbbe-eae6e7b55982@riseup.net> <20200319123853.46323dcf@scratchpost.org> <20200319185322.4864a991@scratchpost.org> From: Naga Malleswari Message-ID: <09fa48e5-d13d-6c5d-e29d-229a2d8eb890@riseup.net> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:31:20 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200319185322.4864a991@scratchpost.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 40040@debbugs.gnu.org On 19/03/20 11:23 pm, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Naga, > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:05:35 +0530 > Naga Malleswari 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 . 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