Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add miscfiles

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02:37AM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
>      
>      > * gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm: New file.
>      > * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
>      
>      [...]
>      
>      > +    (license gpl2)))
>      
>      I think it should be gpl2+.
>      
> I'm not sure.  I checked in the package.  There is the COPYING file which contains the licence notice for GPL2
> But there are no copyright notices.

In that case the license says “you may choose any version ever
published”, and I think we’ve put gpl2+ in such situations in the past
(although that’s stricter than what the text says.)

> It's a bit of an odd licence to have for such a package anyway.
> In fact I double if most of the stuff can even be copyrighted.

Yeah.

Anyway, you can go ahead.

Thanks,
Ludo’.