Subject: Re: [bug#27671] [PATCH] gnu: Add bmon.

From: Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:19:04 +0530

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes:

>> +     (origin
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (string-append "https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/releases/download/v4.0/bmon-"
>
> Use ‘version’ instead of "4.0" here, as well.

Noted.

>> +    (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
>
> I'd write this as two lines for consistency and aesthetics.

Noted.

>> +    (description "bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture
>> +networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly
>
> ‘networking-related’, ‘human-friendly’.

Noted.

>> +    (license (list license:bsd-2
>> +                   license:expat))))
>
> Hm. Do you know which files are BSD-licenced? Quite a few have an
> expat-style header, but only ‘README.md’ mentions BSD (while saying
> nothing of use).

You are right. All files have expat license headers. I have contacted
the author seeking clarification.

https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/issues/59

Let's wait and see if the author replies in a few days.