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[PATCH] gnu: emacs-erc-status-sidebar: Update to 0.1-2.b589b742.

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Message #17 received at 43096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Brett Gilio <brettg <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 43096 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Rohleder <mike <at> rohleder.de>
Subject: Re: [bug#43096] [PATCH] gnu: emacs-erc-status-sidebar: Update to
 0.1-2.b589b742.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:59:58 -0500

Brett Gilio <brettg <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> writes:
>
>> Brett Gilio 写道：
>>>> -      (license license:expat))))
>>>> +      (license license:gpl3+))))
>>>>   (define-public emacs-shut-up
>>>>    (package
>>>
>>> I might be mistaken, but I think the license change belongs in a
>>> separate patch.
>>
>> Not if the licence actually changed between versions.
>>
>> If it's correcting a previously incorrect licence in Guix, then indeed
>> it does.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> T G-R
>
> It's kind of a weird case where it is both? The LICENSE file has always
> been GPL3, but the code header erroneously stated it as expat-style.
>
> https://github.com/drewbarbs/erc-status-sidebar/commit/b589b74245591257c9e666bd5cd25812e04b7a34
>
> I kind of lean on the side of a separate patch since the license never
> really changed, but was an error both upstream and on our end as well.
>
> Brett Gilio

Actually, the change of commits may not be necessary at all. There is no
code changes between the commits, and the license file is intact.

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