From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jFLdn-0002c6-AR for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:41:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jFLdm-0000Mi-7f for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:41:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jFLdm-0000MO-0x for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:41:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jFLdl-0002Hq-Uv for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:41:01 -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: <18a96f8b-de07-dcfe-5ca1-ca602626d942@riseup.net> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:10:19 +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 Hi On 19/03/20 11:23 pm, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > 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. I have raised the issue and the author said that he followed CRAN Licensing and included in the description. https://github.com/agrueneberg/crochet/issues/9 In this case can the patch be approved. > > 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? > > -- Regards NagaMalli