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Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages
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Mats Lidell |
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Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages |
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Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:37:02 +0200 |
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> Jonas Bernoulli writes:
> [...] since some people have offered to help with that, I have now created a
> list of the remaining packages. There is now a new file,
> licenses-details.org in the epkg-reports [1] repository that contains just
> that.
Thanks. Just what I need. Picking the first ten of that list gives:
achievements No license
gap-mode No license
ttl-mode Two-clause BSD licence
riscv-mode README.md says GPLv3+ but source file lacks license information
zig-mode No license
airline-themes No license
ghc According to LICENSE file: AGPL3 but files with BSD3 exists
darkane-theme No license
kpm-list Home made license!?
google-this Incomplete GPL license
>From this it looks like manually going through the packages could be the only
way.
Maybe greping through all files in a package looking for the absence of
strings like gpl or license could spot many of the "No license" cases.
> It would however be nice if the people who look into this would also
> contact some authors to encourage them to properly license their code.
Or we could do a centralized effort when we have classified all packages?
What is the motivating factor for the authors who have not assigned any
license to their package? That open source software should be covered bye one
clearly stated open source license?
Yours
--
%% Mats
- Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/10
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/12
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/13
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/14
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/15
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/15
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/07/15
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Jonas Bernoulli, 2017/07/16
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages,
Mats Lidell <=
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/16
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/17
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/17
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/17
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/17
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/18
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/23
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/27
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/28
- Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages, Mats Lidell, 2017/07/29