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plan9-like text editor wily

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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27150 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27150: plan9-like text editor wily
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 15:52:30 +0000

Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz> skribis:
> 
> > From 551a544eab8f4295581ace79a5c8b5b2a9c3b581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: ng0 <ng0 <at> no-reply.pragmatique.xyz>
> > Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:08:24 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add wily.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (wily): New variable.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +    (home-page "http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/")
> > +    (synopsis "Implementation of ACME")
> > +    (description
> > +     "Wily is a mouse-oriented, text-based environment for programmers.
> > +It lets you interact with files, directories and programs through mouse and keyboard
> > +operations on plain text.  Most of Wily's design (but none of its code) comes
> > +from Rob Pike's acme.")
> > +    (license license:gpl3+)))
> 
> On closer inspection, the license is not GPLv3+ at all, AFAICS.  There’s
> an ‘Artistic’ file license with the old Artistic license, which is
> non-free AFAIK.  And there’s code in libframe/ for instance marked as:
> 
>   /* Copyright (c) 1992 AT&T - All rights reserved. */
> 
> Lacking additional info, that makes it non-free.  There’s also a bunch
> of Plan 9 headers and stuff taken as-is.
> 
> Do you know of free distros that provide Wily?  Could you check whether
> I’m missing something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

Oh no :(

I must have missed this, I really thought I checked for licenses!
So it keep in my package repository.

Sorry.
-- 
ng0
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