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bug#27150: plan9-like text editor wily
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ng0 |
Subject: |
bug#27150: plan9-like text editor wily |
Date: |
Wed, 31 May 2017 15:52:30 +0000 |
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > From 551a544eab8f4295581ace79a5c8b5b2a9c3b581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: ng0 <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:08:24 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add wily.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (wily): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
> > + (home-page "http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/")
> > + (synopsis "Implementation of ACME")
> > + (description
> > + "Wily is a mouse-oriented, text-based environment for programmers.
> > +It lets you interact with files, directories and programs through mouse
> > and keyboard
> > +operations on plain text. Most of Wily's design (but none of its code)
> > comes
> > +from Rob Pike's acme.")
> > + (license license:gpl3+)))
>
> On closer inspection, the license is not GPLv3+ at all, AFAICS. There’s
> an ‘Artistic’ file license with the old Artistic license, which is
> non-free AFAIK. And there’s code in libframe/ for instance marked as:
>
> /* Copyright (c) 1992 AT&T - All rights reserved. */
>
> Lacking additional info, that makes it non-free. There’s also a bunch
> of Plan 9 headers and stuff taken as-is.
>
> Do you know of free distros that provide Wily? Could you check whether
> I’m missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
Oh no :(
I must have missed this, I really thought I checked for licenses!
So it keep in my package repository.
Sorry.
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ng0
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