From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 26890-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
Subject: bug#26890: [PATCH] gnu: Add agrep.
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:10:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2ybpyw3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw4rrs7w.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 11 May 2017 23:36:35 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 05:04:08PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>>> Quote from copying.agrep in the source directory:
>>> 4. Redistribution for profit requires the express, written permission
>>> of the authors.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this clause makes agrep not free software. Indeed, Debian
>> distributes it from their non-free repos:
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/agrep
>
> This is confusing. Debian has version 4.17-9 but I don’t even know
> where they got it from. The home page that’s linked there only has 2.x
> tarballs.
>
> And this clashes with the declaration of the ICS version in the git
> repo.
>
> Weird! I really don’t mind dropping this patch (I just packaged it
> while demonstrating Guix), but it’s sad that the license situation here
> is so contradictory.
So I’m closing this entry if you don’t mind. :-)
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-22 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-11 19:30 bug#26890: [PATCH] gnu: Add agrep Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-11 21:04 ` Kei Kebreau
2017-05-11 21:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-11 22:03 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-11 21:24 ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-11 21:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-06-22 20:10 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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