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#48911
incorrect license for dialog
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Reported by: dickey <at> his.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 08:08:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
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Your bug report
#48911: incorrect license for dialog
which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.
The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 48911 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 04:07:13AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> The license cited in
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/dialog-1.3-20201126/
>
> is incorrect. The developer in this change
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/gnu/packages/ncurses.scm?id=44298269baae6cb8bbaa19e504f391c74cf5729b
>
> was apparently unfamiliar with the exception in config.guess and config.sub:
>
> # As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
> # distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
> # configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
> # the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
> # program. This Exception is an additional permission under section 7
> # of the GNU General Public License, version 3 ("GPLv3").
>
> Fix by deleting the line mentioning "Automake", and removing "gpl3" from
> the following line:
>
> ;; Includes the gpl3 file "config.sub" from Automake.
> (license (list lgpl2.1 gpl3))))
Thank you for the report. It's been fixed:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=eef6aa3c91df13f27999bfa911d5c40bf691a420
Guix users will get the corrected package metadata whenever they next
update their systems, and the website should reflect it shortly.
We were actually discussing these issues regarding build tooling
licenses recently, but I did not think to go back and look at my own
early contributions to Guix. I'm sorry if this mistake caused confusion
that affected you.
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The license cited in
https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/dialog-1.3-20201126/
is incorrect. The developer in this change
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/gnu/packages/ncurses.scm?id=44298269baae6cb8bbaa19e504f391c74cf5729b
was apparently unfamiliar with the exception in config.guess and config.sub:
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
# program. This Exception is an additional permission under section 7
# of the GNU General Public License, version 3 ("GPLv3").
Fix by deleting the line mentioning "Automake", and removing "gpl3" from
the following line:
;; Includes the gpl3 file "config.sub" from Automake.
(license (list lgpl2.1 gpl3))))
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey <at> invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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