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Subject: [bug#30836] [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:
>
>> Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends t=
hat
>> everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent li=
cense
>> information.
>
> Do you have examples of packages on ELPA that are not GPLv3+?  I don=E2=
=80=99t
> know if this is the case, but I wouldn=E2=80=99t 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.