GNU bug report logs - #26622
[PATCH] Add freexl

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Catonano <catonano <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:37:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 26622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Kei Kebreau <kei <at> openmailbox.org>, Catonano <catonano <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26622: [PATCH] Add freexl
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:30:23 +0200
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Kei Kebreau <kei <at> openmailbox.org> writes:

> Catonano <catonano <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Another xls files reading library.
>>
>> The home page of Freexl says
>>
>> FreeXL is licensed under the MPL tri-license terms; you are free to choose the best-fit license
>> between:
>>
>> the MPL 1.1
>> the GPL v2.0 or any subsequent version
>> the LGPL v2.1 or any subsequent version
>>
>> I'm not sure what this means for Guix
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Just picking one should be fine. I believe that's what we do for GNU
> IceCat, another piece of software under a similar tri-license. I'll
> defer to someone else's better judgement though.

Usually we list all of them. See e.g. "libcmis" or "python2-pycairo". I
don't think we should hide this fact from the end user.
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