Subject: Re: [bug#30836] [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Konrad Hinsen <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:25:41 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Konrad Hinsen <[email-masked]> skribis:

> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Konrad Hinsen <[email-masked]> 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.

Good idea.  Commit 9bb1838c3f982dfb84ba24eb2f727cb39ee5805c does that.

Thanks!

Ludo’.