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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 17:15:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <baa24316.AEMAPb-RwFQAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZq-uC@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873786zlsb.fsf@albion.it.manchester.ac.uk>


Dave Love writes:

> Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Based on the above general argument, I think we should list all the
>> licenses instead of just GPLv2+ since it would be inaccurate to say that
>> the whole program is under just GPLv2+.
>
> Indeed.  Not only do you need to list the licences (according to all
> "legal advice" I've seen for distributions), but normally also
> distribute the relevant licence texts, even for permissive licences if
> they require that (e.g. BSD).  I raised this recently, as it's not
> generally being done, so some Guix binary packages appear to be
> copyright-infringing.

I pushed linkchecker with all the licenses listed. So, I guess we've
done the right thing with respect to this package.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-03 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-26  7:40 Question about multiple licenses Arun Isaac
2017-08-28 10:45 ` Alex Vong
2017-08-28 17:25   ` Arun Isaac
2017-08-28 17:29     ` Efraim Flashner
2017-08-29  6:30       ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-01 11:43   ` Dave Love
2017-09-02 16:54     ` Alex Vong
2017-09-07 16:21       ` Dave Love
2017-09-03 11:45     ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2017-09-04 14:57     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-07 16:20       ` Dave Love
2017-09-10 20:54         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-11 11:29           ` Alex Vong
2017-09-11 12:45             ` Andy Wingo
2017-09-12 22:15               ` Dave Love
2017-09-12 22:13           ` Dave Love

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