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

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Message #19 received at 30836-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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