From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: xkblayout-state Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:15:23 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87fu3ij2a3.fsf@gmail.com> <20180426184319.GA9681@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000cb51fd056ac60c1b" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBnIm-0006MC-Ii for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:15:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBnIl-0003pp-A5 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:15:36 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22e]:35095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBnIl-0003pd-5P for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:15:35 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id 186-v6so25418799itu.0 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:15:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20180426184319.GA9681@jasmine.lan> 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: Leo Famulari Cc: help-guix --000000000000cb51fd056ac60c1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Leo Famulari ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018. =C3=A1p= r. 26., Cs 20:43): > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:13:09AM +0200, G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote: > > 2018-04-26 1:26 GMT+02:00 Jone : > > > > > Hi people! > > > How do I build https://github.com/nonpop/xkblayout-state ? > > > I need it for switching keyboard layout with one key (LWin), in Emacs > > > and in X. > > > > > > Hello! > > > > I've checked the mentioned software. It seems, that it is non-free. Thi= s > is > > caused > > by partial application of GPL2. What is missing is an explicit license > > file, and some > > license notes. As it seems, that the intention of the author was to > release > > this software > > under GPL2, it might be easy to have it fixed. Please point the author = to > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html. > > Why do you think the software is not free software distributed under the > GPL2+? > > The author explicitly states in the README that they have released it as > GPL2+, and most of the files also contain license headers. > 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. Also a copy of the license is omitted. It is mandated by term 1 of gpl. If this partial application of gpl makes this a free software, then sorry for the noise. In case this software is ok for upstream, and is not packaged yet, then I would be happy to contribute a package. > --000000000000cb51fd056ac60c1b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


= Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018= . =C3=A1pr. 26., Cs 20:43):
On Thu,= Apr 26, 2018 at 10:13:09AM +0200, G=C3=A1bor Boskovits wrote:
> 2018-04-26 1:26 GMT+02:00 Jone <yeger9@gmail.com>:<= br> >
> > Hi people!
> > How do I build https://gith= ub.com/nonpop/xkblayout-state ?
> > I need it for switching keyboard layout with one key (LWin), in E= macs
> > and in X.
> >
> > Hello!
>
> I've checked the mentioned software. It seems, that it is non-free= . This is
> caused
> by=C2=A0 partial application of GPL2. What is missing is an explicit l= icense
> file, and some
> license notes. As it seems, that the intention of the author was to re= lease
> this software
> under GPL2, it might be easy to have it fixed. Please point the author= to
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g= pl-howto.html.

Why do you think the software is not free software distributed under the GPL2+?

The author explicitly states in the README that they have released it as GPL2+, and most of the files also contain license headers.
=

Sorry if I misund= erstood, the intention of the author is clearly to licence the work as gpl,= but some files are missing the gpl clause. Also a copy of the license is o= mitted. It is mandated by term 1 of gpl. If this partial application of gpl= makes this a free software, then sorry for the noise. In case this softwar= e is ok for upstream, and is not packaged yet, then I would be happy to con= tribute a package.
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