From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add miscfiles Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:52:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87zjcjndjo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1413921104-28873-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <8738abst8i.fsf@gnu.org> <20141025220514.GA25563@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiOFC-00074K-Ag for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:52:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiOF7-0007cB-Pq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:52:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20141025220514.GA25563@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:05:14 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington John Darrington skribis: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:02:37AM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > John Darrington 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.