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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add miscfiles
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:52:43 +0100
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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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:
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      > * gnu/packages/miscfiles.scm: New file.
>      > * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      [...]
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      > +    (license gpl2)))
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      I think it should be gpl2+.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
> 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 =E2=80=9Cyou may choose any version ever
published=E2=80=9D, and I think we=E2=80=99ve put gpl2+ in such situations =
in the past
(although that=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99.