From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: xkblayout-state Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:55:57 -0400 Message-ID: <9493F42D-98E5-4742-9D2F-9BDA1152107D@famulari.name> References: <87fu3ij2a3.fsf@gmail.com> <20180426184319.GA9681@jasmine.lan> <20180426204720.GA20666@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC3r5-0003Mt-FW for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:56:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC3qz-0001Er-JM for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:56:07 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:56037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC3qz-0001Eb-CS for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:56:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Boskovits?= Cc: help-guix On April 26, 2018 4:53:56 PM EDT, "G=C3=A1bor Boskovits" wrote: >2018-04-26 22:47 GMT+02:00 Leo Famulari : > >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:15:23PM +0000, G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote: >> > Sorry if I misunderstood, the intention of the author is clearly to >> licence >> > the work as gpl, but some files are missing the gpl clause=2E Also a >copy >> of >> > the license is omitted=2E It is mandated by term 1 of gpl=2E If this >partial >> > application of gpl makes this a free software, then sorry for the >noise=2E >> In >> > case this software is ok for upstream, and is not packaged yet, >then I >> > would be happy to contribute a package=2E >> >> Many (if not most) of our packages omit some license headers, so I >don't >> think we should count that as a blocker=2E >> >> As for the missing LICENSE file, that's also suboptimal, but as you >say, >> the author clearly intends to distribute the work as GPL2+=2E >> >> One could ask the author the include the LICENSE file, but I think we >> can go ahead with adding the software to Guix as it is now=2E >> >> What do you think? And others, do you think it's okay to go ahead >with >> packaging this program? >> > >Ok, I will contact the author, and ask to include a license file=2E I >will >prepare a patch >tomorrow=2E I've noticed one more thing, this software does not seem to >have >official >releases=2E Should I prepare the package based on the tip of current >master? >What version number should be given? Use whatever commit is recommended upstream or, if there is no recommendat= ion, the latest commit=2E Please see the manual section Version Numbers for the full answer regardin= g the version identifier=2E There are two procedures, git-version and git-f= ile-name, that will be useful here=2E