From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dczqI-0006Lz-KZ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:02:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dczqE-0008Cp-Jn for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:02:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:36248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dczqE-0008Cf-5Z for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:02:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dczqD-0008Kj-Pz for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:02:01 -0400 Subject: [bug#27913] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] gnu: Add python-ghp-import.) Resent-Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 16:01:28 -0400 From: Leo Famulari Message-ID: <20170802200128.GA20759@jasmine.lan> References: <87d18ebpvs.fsf@gmail.com> <878tj29c9y.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <878tj29c9y.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Oleg Pykhalov Cc: 27913@debbugs.gnu.org On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:15:21PM +0300, Oleg Pykhalov wrote: > Hello Guix. > > The license is not gpl3+, it's “Tumbolia Public License”. > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davisp/ghp-import/master/LICENSE For everyone's reference, this is the text of the license: ------ Tumbolia Public License Copyright 2013, Paul Davis Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. opan saurce LOL ------ It was discussed on the Fedora Legal mailing list: https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-legal/msg02842.html I don't know the final outcome there (i.e. does Fedora offer Tumbolia-license software now?) but it seems positive. Also, Debian distributes the software: https://packages.debian.org/sid/ghp-import > Is it OK in Guix? If yes, what is good way to provide this licence? I think it's fine. The author's intent to make the software available under a permissive-style license seems clear to me. Please change the license field of the package definition from 'gpl3+' to 'non-copyleft'. That license can be annotated; there are lots of examples in the maths module: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/maths.scm And the source of 'non-copyleft': https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/licenses.scm?id=41209a6f3a9945b55bcc06b989628e09e9f98b6a#n157