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[PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:53:51 +0100 |
Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends that
everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent license
information.
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guix/import/elpa.scm | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/guix/import/elpa.scm b/guix/import/elpa.scm
index 7f76a13ad..cae10eb1c 100644
--- a/guix/import/elpa.scm
+++ b/guix/import/elpa.scm
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ type '<elpa-package>'."
(home-page ,(elpa-package-home-page pkg))
(synopsis ,(elpa-package-synopsis pkg))
(description ,(elpa-package-description pkg))
- (license license:gpl3+))))
+ (license #f))))
(define* (elpa->guix-package name #:optional (repo 'gnu))
"Fetch the package NAME from REPO and produce a Guix package S-expression."
--
2.16.2
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Re: [bug#30836] [PATCH 2/3] guix import elpa: use #f for license |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:25:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Elpa doesn't supply license information. The current importer pretends that
>>> everything is GPL3, which is not true. The importer should not invent
>>> license
>>> information.
>>
>> Do you have examples of packages on ELPA that are not GPLv3+? I don’t
>> know if this is the case, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had a policy
>> of requiring GPLv3+ given that Emacs itself is GPLv3+.
>
> The ELPA importer is also used for MELPA, which has no license
> requirements. The package that motivated this patch is Deft, which is
> MIT-licensed:
>
> https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
>
> If GNU ELPA guarantees GPL3, we could keep the old behavior for that
> but use #f for MELPA and stable MELPA.
Good idea. Commit 9bb1838c3f982dfb84ba24eb2f727cb39ee5805c does that.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
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