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[PATCH] Add freexl

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Message #8 received at 26622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kei Kebreau <kei <at> openmailbox.org>
To: Catonano <catonano <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26622 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26622: [PATCH] Add freexl
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:32:57 -0400

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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.

> From d5f10229fb928f63404c6097c60e09f2c2a5b1bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: humanitiesNerd <catonano <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:24:39 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: Add freexl
>
> * gnu/packages/xml.scm (freexl): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/xml.scm | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
> index 7460b5d85..02ae00514 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
> @@ -1122,3 +1122,23 @@ files.  It is designed to be fast and to handle large input files.")
>       "libxls is a C library which can read Excel (xls) files since Excel 97 (the BIFF8 format).
>  libxls cannot write Excel files.")
>      (license license:bsd-2)))
> +
> +(define-public freexl
> +  (package
> +    (name "freexl")
> +    (version "1.0.2")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append "http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/"
> +                                  name  "-"
> +                                  version ".tar.gz"))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "17a0yrjb0gln7819j0vp7y25imhvwpil2b0rm44mwgzml0a4i6mk"))))
> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> +    (home-page "https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/freexl/index")
> +    (synopsis "Read Excel files")
> +    (description
> +     "FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data
> +from within an Excel (.xls) spreadsheet.")
> +    (license license:gpl2+)))

The package builds and lints fine for me!

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