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
