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From: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
To: help-guix mailing list <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Help identifying licenses
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 11:55:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <644c16fbe6b0151174a3a91e67c1dba092bfa778.camel@gmail.com> (raw)

I'm working on packaging for Guix the filters package found in debian (home
page <http://joeyh.name/code/filters/>). It involves a lot of different
licenses, and I'm not sure what to put for two of them in particular:

1. newspeak
The author says bsd-like. I don't see any clauses or yelling. What should I
put for it? Here's the relevant snippet from debian/copyright:

Files: newspeak.l
Copyright: 1991 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
License: other-4
 The newspeak filter is now relicensed under a BSD-like copyright. Its
 author established the new copyright in this email:
 .
  From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
  Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:17:02 -0700
  To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
  Subject: Re: copyright of newspeak filter
 .
  Hey there -- I'm cleaning out old mail, and don't remember if I replied
  to this or not.  Anyway, in case I didn't -- feel free to slap this 
  license atop the newspeak script (it's BSD-like, so that should work
  for you.)
 .
        Copyright (c) 1991 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
 .
        Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this 
        software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted
        without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in
        all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
        permission notice appear in supporting documentation.  No
        representations are made about the suitability of this software
        for any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or
        implied warranty.

2. Kenny
The author says Artistic as found on debian in /usr/share/common-
licenses/Artistic. It is not found in (guix licenses), and sincee I do not
run debian from that era I cannot compare the text to verify the license's
identity. Here's the relevant snippet from debian/copyright:

Files: kenny
Copyright:
  2001 Christian Garbs <mitch@cgarbs.de>
  2002 Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
License: Artistic
 On Debian systems, the full text of the Artistic license can be found in
 /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic


Thanks for the help,
-- 
-Jesse

             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-06 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-06 17:55 Jesse Gibbons [this message]
2019-10-06 18:56 ` Help identifying licenses Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-06 18:58   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-06 19:59     ` Jesse Gibbons

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