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[PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license

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To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
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Subject: bug#30836: closed ([PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:26:02 +0000

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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:53:51 +0100

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.
---
 guix/import/elpa.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guix/import/elpa.scm b/guix/import/elpa.scm
index 7f76a13ad..cae10eb1c 100644
--- a/guix/import/elpa.scm
+++ b/guix/import/elpa.scm
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ type '<elpa-package>'."
        (home-page ,(elpa-package-home-page pkg))
        (synopsis ,(elpa-package-synopsis pkg))
        (description ,(elpa-package-description pkg))
-       (license license:gpl3+))))
+       (license #f))))
 
 (define* (elpa->guix-package name #:optional (repo 'gnu))
   "Fetch the package NAME from REPO and produce a Guix package S-expression."
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2.16.2

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
Cc: 30836-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30836] [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:25:41 +0100

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> skribis:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> 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’.

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