From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: License auditing Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:11:43 -0500 Message-ID: <1470258703.2769072.685294401.7618CBA4@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20160803180342.GA11621@jasmine> <87poppy47o.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:45558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV3SN-0001YH-L3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:12:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bV3SH-0007Ik-UE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:12:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87poppy47o.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= , Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel , David Craven On Wed, Aug 3, 2016, at 03:42 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > However, in Guix we encode such cases as =E2=80=98gpl3+=E2=80=99 (or simi= lar), rather > than =E2=80=98gpl1+=E2=80=99. That seems wrong and confusing. It means that if I'm writing a GPLv2 program, for example, then I cannot rely on Guix to search for legally compatible libraries to use. It also means we cannot implement a tool to automatically flag Guix package dependencies for possible license violations. --=20 Alex Griffin