Re: 03/04: gnu: Add git-when-merged.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> civodul pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>>
>> commit 243bdcc12e40c8dbd1129fa5b613d8f247744f31
>> Author: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
>> Date:   Mon Nov 12 16:24:23 2018 -0500
>>
>>     gnu: Add git-when-merged.
>>     
>>     * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (git-when-merged): New variable.
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>> ---
>>  gnu/packages/version-control.scm | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)
>
> The license field of this package is incorrect.  It has this:
>
>   (license license:gpl2)
>
> which is understandable given that GitHub shows the license as "GPL-2.0"
> on the main project page <https://github.com/mhagger/git-when-merged>.
> However, if you look at the actual code, there's only one source file
> and it has a proper GNU GPLv2+ copyright notice at the top.
>
>   https://github.com/mhagger/git-when-merged/blob/master/bin/git-when-merged
>
> The only other files in the repository are README.md and COPYING.

Indeed, my bad: knowing that Git is GPLv2-only, I took it for granted
that git-when-merged was licensed similarly.

I’ll push the fix shortly, thanks for the heads-up!

Ludo’.