From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 30836@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30836] [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 09:27:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1bmflhjoz.fsf@ordinateur-de-catherine--konrad.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3iql7b7.fsf@gnu.org>
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>
>> Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends that
>> everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent license
>> information.
>
> Do you have examples of packages on ELPA that are not GPLv3+? I don’t
> know if this is the case, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had a policy
> of requiring GPLv3+ given that Emacs itself is GPLv3+.
The ELPA importer is also used for MELPA, which has no license
requirements. The package that motivated this patch is Deft, which is
MIT-licensed:
https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
If GNU ELPA guarantees GPL3, we could keep the old behavior for that
but use #f for MELPA and stable MELPA.
Konrad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-18 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-16 13:53 [bug#30836] [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license Konrad Hinsen
2018-03-17 21:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-18 8:27 ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]
2018-03-18 22:25 ` bug#30836: " Ludovic Courtès
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