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[PATCH 00/15] Add ruby-rubocop and dependencies.

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 34222 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34222] [PATCH 04/15] gnu: Add ruby-racc.
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:26:51 +0100

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:
>>
>>> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Required for ruby-ast and ruby-parser.
>>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/ruby.scm (ruby-racc): New variable.
>>> […]
>>>> +    (license license:expat)))
>>>
>>> On the website it says that the license is “LGPL” (no version is
>>> provided).  Could you please confirm the license?
>>
>> Indeed, the metadata in the gem is wrong. The information on the license
>> is a bit sparse. LGPL 2.1 is included in the sources, and there is one
>> file which references this in the header.
>
> Actually, there is a lot more, I forgot to pass "-r" to
> licensecheck. There's also 3 files where it says:
>
>   You can distribute/modify this program under the same terms of ruby.
>
> So I might put this instead. What do you think?
>
> +    (license (list license:lgpl2.1
> +                   license:ruby))))

This would be fine with a comment.

Thanks!

-- 
Ricardo

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