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Subject: bug#30836: [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
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Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>>
>>> Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends =
that
>>> everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent l=
icense
>>> information.
>>
>> Do you have examples of packages on ELPA that are not GPLv3+?  I don=E2=
=80=99t
>> know if this is the case, but I wouldn=E2=80=99t be surprised if it had =
a policy
>> of requiring GPLv3+ given that Emacs itself is GPLv3+.
>
> The ELPA importer is also used for MELPA, which has no license
> requirements. The package that motivated this patch is Deft, which is
> MIT-licensed:
>
>    https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
>
> If GNU ELPA guarantees GPL3, we could keep the old behavior for that
> but use #f for MELPA and stable MELPA.

Good idea.  Commit 9bb1838c3f982dfb84ba24eb2f727cb39ee5805c does that.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.