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[PATCH 1/2] gnu: mate-power-manager: Use correct license.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: guy fleury iteriteka <hoonandon <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35366: closed (Re: [bug#35366] [PATCH 1/2] gnu:
 mate-power-manager: Use correct license.)
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 13:33:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#35366: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mate-power-manager: Use correct license.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Guy fleury <hoonandon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35366-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#35366] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mate-power-manager: Use correct
 license.
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 15:32:08 +0200

Hi Guy,

Guy fleury <hoonandon <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Le lun. 6 mai 2019 à 11:03, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> a écrit :
>
>> guy fleury iteriteka <hoonandon <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>> > * [licence]: change gpl3+ to gpl2.
>>
>> Hi guy,
>>
>> AFAICS mate-power-manager is GPLv2+ (not GPLv2) because its license
>> headers carry the “or any later version” wording.
>
> je n'est pas vu Ca (attention les accents: J'ai un clavier qwert).
> Dans l'entete du fichier COPYING : on dit
> -------------------
> GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>                        Version 2, June 1991
> -------------------

True, but source file headers are authoritative here: since they
explicitly allow for “any later versions”, then it’s GPLv2+ (“version 2
or any later version.”)

I’ll make that change, then.

Thank you!

Ludo’.

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From: guy fleury iteriteka <hoonandon <at> gmail.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: guy fleury iteriteka <hoonandon <at> gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: mate-power-manager: Use correct license.
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:00:29 +0200

* [licence]: change gpl3+ to gpl2.
---
 gnu/packages/mate.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/mate.scm b/gnu/packages/mate.scm
index 0b668b4..becd7ab 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/mate.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/mate.scm
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ MATE applications.")
      "MATE Power Manager is a MATE session daemon that acts as a policy agent on
 top of UPower. It listens to system events and responds with user-configurable
 actions.")
-    (license license:gpl3+)))
+    (license license:gpl2)))
 
 (define-public mate-icon-theme
   (package
-- 
2.21.0

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