Re: [directory-discuss] guix tags that could be automatically extracted]

Re: [directory-discuss] guix tags that could be automatically extracted]

[ng0]

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I think I switched off the @pragmatique.xyz email accounts a while ago.
If I didn't and my first send of this came through I'm sorry.

> ng0,
> 
> On 16/07/17 14:07, ng0 wrote:
> > What I expressed last night:
> > 
> > I don't want any additions to the connections made without the 
> > consent of people using guix.
> 
> The proposal then was using Guix to ‘feed’ the Directory, not the other
> way round. We as a project can't prohibit others to export data from
> their Guix checkout to their wiki if they'd so desire.
> 
> However, individual authors probably have some sort of copyright over
> the data in some jurisdiction, which is why I don't see it happening.
> 
> > What exactly does this mean? Everything should be within Guix. The 
> > default should be to *not* call some mediawiki for more information. 
> > If we even have the option to query this mediawiki and the 
> > information doesn't have to be present in guix like translations, I 
> > want it to be optional and you have to opt-in to (receiving) these 
> > (informations).
> 
> A sentiment which I support in general, but which makes no sense when
> discussing ‘guix import’, whose entire purpose in this life is to query
> external sources. What's so different about this one?
> 
> (I'm not personally advocating adding *this particular one* — I have
> nothing against the project, but do think our descriptions are slightly
> better on average. Quiliro's proposal seemed interesting enough to
> discuss here: they're obviously eager to contribute, and this would be a
> relatively easy importer to write :-)
> 
> > Please discuss this either on guix-devel or on the other list, but 
> > don't CC me into one of the famous gnu.org cross-posting
> > discussions. Thanks for your consideration.
> 
> What?
> 
> I don't think this proposal will be going anywhere because of licencing
> hurdles alone, anyway, so you'll not be disturbed by any more replies
> from me.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R
> 




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