From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/24] gnu: gstreamer: Use license: prefix. Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:53:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160816183938.22794-1-david@craven.ch> <20160816183938.22794-14-david@craven.ch> <87inv0ii7o.fsf@gmail.com> <20160816173803.24645a5e@openmailbox.org> <20160817104751.4f2e7606@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZwbL-0002Ai-FX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:53:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZwbG-0001n8-G6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:53:31 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::243]:33445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZwbF-0001mL-9P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:53:26 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x243.google.com with SMTP id z8so4979658ywa.0 for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 01:53:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160817104751.4f2e7606@scratchpost.org> 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" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: guix-devel , Alex Kost > Expat causes a name collision. > > Also nmap, boost, cecill-c, freetype, imlib2, openldap2.0, openssl, ruby, tcl/tk, vim, x11, zlib. > > Should there be new licenses it's a good guess it will be named like the package it originated in. > > I would not advise removing the prefix. If anything, use it everywhere. Ah, I was thinking more about lgpl2.1+ and the sorts... So is it a good idea to prefix all licenses in guix licenses itself (as Eric mentioned), and be done with it?