Hello Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> 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 <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
>
> 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