Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add loudmouth.

[ng0]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/messaging.scm (loudmouth): New variable.
>>>> ---
>>>>  gnu/packages/messaging.scm | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/messaging.scm b/gnu/packages/messaging.scm
>>>> index 2be3b0969..d6b0d4bbc 100644
>>>> --- a/gnu/packages/messaging.scm
>>>> +++ b/gnu/packages/messaging.scm
>>>> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Andreas Enge <address@hidden>
>>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
>>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Efraim Flashner <address@hidden>
>>>> -;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <address@hidden>
>>>> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 <address@hidden>
>>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2016 Andy Patterson <address@hidden>
>>>>  ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Clément Lassieur <address@hidden>
>>>>  ;;;
>>>> @@ -1120,4 +1120,34 @@ Conferencing (PSYC).  psycLPC is a fork of LDMud 
>>>> with some new features and
>>>>  many bug fixes.")
>>>>      (license license:gpl2))))
>>>>  
>>>> +(define-public loudmouth
>>>> +  (package
>>>> +    (name "loudmouth")
>>>> +    (version "1.5.3")
>>>> +    (source
>>>> +     (origin
>>>> +       (method url-fetch)
>>>> +       (uri (string-append "https://mcabber.com/files/loudmouth/";
>>>> +                           name "-" version ".tar.bz2"))
>>>> +       (sha256
>>>> +        (base32
>>>> +         "0b6kd5gpndl9nzis3n6hcl0ldz74bnbiypqgqa1vgb0vrcar8cjl"))))
>>>> +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
>>>> +    (inputs
>>>> +     `(("gnutls" ,gnutls)
>>>> +       ("glib" ,glib)
>>>> +       ("libidn" ,libidn)))
>>>> +    (native-inputs
>>>> +     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
>>>> +       ("check" ,check)
>>>> +       ("glib" ,glib "bin") ; gtester
>>>> +       ("gtk-doc" ,gtk-doc)))
>>>> +    (home-page "http://mcabber.com/";)
>>>> +    (description
>>>> +     "Loudmouth is a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming
>>>> +with the Jabber protocol.  It's designed to be easy to get started with
>>>> +and yet extensible to let you do anything the Jabber protocol allows.")
>>>> +    (synopsis "Asynchronous XMPP library")
>>>> +    (license license:lgpl2.1)))
>>>
>>> According to Debian, the license is lgpl2.0+.  Can you check this again?
>>>
>>>       Mark
>>>
>>
>> Sorry for all the mistakes, I wasn't very present when I wrote
>> this.
>> But, the license is correct. I haven't looked at debian because I
>> have the source, and it is 2.1 here.
>
> I just looked, and the source files say this:
>
>   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
>   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>   License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> That means lgpl2.0+, as the Debian maintainer concluded.
>
> Have you been concluding the licenses based solely on the COPYING file
> (or similar) present in the tarball?  If so, you may have been getting
> it wrong for a long time.  The copyright notices in the source files are
> the relevant thing to check.  I usually check Debian's copyright files,
> since they've already done the hard work.
>
>      Thanks,
>        Mark

First I look for a note in README, then I will look at
COPYING/LICENSE, then I will grep for "or later", "license", and
similar words and certain similar manual steps.

Confusing source. Okay, thanks.
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