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taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer") skribis:

> It would be neat to have a page sequentially listing all the licenses we
> support, with some short notice on each highlighting its distinguishing
> features.  I had to visit all the separate FSF wiki pages linked from
> guix/licenses.scm and make out my own mental map of them so to say.
>
> It would also be neat to have a better version of
> <http://www.what-license.com/>, tuned for our purposes.  (This one
> doesn't support many licenses and seems to use a very bad algorithm.)

I=E2=80=99m sure FOSSology and the like already have sophisticated tools in=
 that
area, but a =E2=80=98guix license=E2=80=99 tool that would do that would be=
 nice (a
simple way would be to extract the text from the corresponding fsf.org
pages.)

(It=E2=80=99s Guile potluck soon.  Hint.  ;-))

Ludo=E2=80=99.