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Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add German Aspell dictionary.
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Alex Kost |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add German Aspell dictionary. |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:35:25 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
John Darrington (2016-08-28 15:41 +0300) wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:20:45PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > +(define-public aspell-dict-de
> > + (aspell-dictionary "de" "German"
> > + #:version "20030222-1"
> > + #:sha256
> > + (base32
> > +
> "01p92qj66cqb346gk7hjfynaap5sbcn85xz07kjfdq623ghr8v5s")))
> don't forget your copyright line. Otherwise looks good.
>
> I didn't forget. But I don't consider these 6 lines to be in any respect
> novel, creative or original. The FSF guidelines for what is regarded as
> "legally significant" for copyright purposes mentions the limit of 15 lines.
>
> In fact, I challenge anyone to offer a definition of aspell-dict-de which
> works in Guix AND satisfies our rather strict coding style, and does not
> differ from the above, except in whitespace.
>
> In other words, there is nothing novel or creative in what I have written.
> Thus, is would be dishonest (perhaps illegal?) for me to claim copyright on
> this work.
I think this patch deserves it. My understanding is we just don't have
a policy on adding copyright lines: some people add a copyright line
even for a simple package update.
--
Alex
[PATCH 4/4] gnu: libtirpc: Remove the --disable-gssapi configure flag., John Darrington, 2016/08/27
[PATCH 2/4] CoC: Correct punctuation, John Darrington, 2016/08/27