From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dO8RX-0005dm-47 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dO8RS-0004IS-SA for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dO8RS-0004II-PB for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dO8RS-0005Rt-K4 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:11:02 -0400 Subject: bug#26890: [PATCH] gnu: Add agrep. Resent-To: guix-patches@gnu.org Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <20170511193045.8882-1-rekado@elephly.net> <87efvvhzqv.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20170511212441.GA7640@jasmine> <87tw4rrs7w.fsf@elephly.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 22:10:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87tw4rrs7w.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Thu, 11 May 2017 23:36:35 +0200") Message-ID: <87r2ybpyw3.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: 26890-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Kei Kebreau Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 05:04:08PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: >>> Quote from copying.agrep in the source directory: >>> 4. Redistribution for profit requires the express, written permission >>> of the authors. >> >> Unfortunately, this clause makes agrep not free software. Indeed, Debian >> distributes it from their non-free repos: >> >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/agrep > > This is confusing. Debian has version 4.17-9 but I don=E2=80=99t even kn= ow > where they got it from. The home page that=E2=80=99s linked there only h= as 2.x > tarballs. > > And this clashes with the declaration of the ICS version in the git > repo. > > Weird! I really don=E2=80=99t mind dropping this patch (I just packaged = it > while demonstrating Guix), but it=E2=80=99s sad that the license situatio= n here > is so contradictory. So I=E2=80=99m closing this entry if you don=E2=80=99t mind. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.