From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikita Karetnikov Subject: List of abbreviations for licenses Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:54:02 +0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdw8R-0001G2-Rp for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:54:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdw8R-0003D3-1k for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:54:03 -0500 Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:55507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdw8Q-0003Cx-Tt for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:54:02 -0500 Received: by mail-vb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id v13so17056354vbk.0 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:54:02 -0800 (PST) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bug-guix@gnu.org Hi, I'm trying to package 'util-linux'. It uses several licenses: - GPLv3+ - GPLv2+ - GPLv2 - LGPLv2+ - BSD with advertising - Public Domain What are the common abbreviations for Public Domain and BSD with advertising? Is there a list of abbreviations for licenses? As far as I can tell, 'license' doesn't check the used values. So it's possible to use an incorrect value (e.g. "foobar"). Should we add a function to check this? Nikita