The GPL itself is not Free (!) It's license is:
"Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." PLUS some extra permissions regarding translation which are given at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html Note that these extra permissions come with a number of conditions, including: "The translation is not hosted on a commercial site." So this means that if the package includes japanse.txt nobody can make a commercial version of our hydra repository. I think this would be a restriction which we don't want to impose. Hence, I thing the decision to remove japanese.txt is correct. J' On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 09:21:41AM +0000, ng0 wrote: ng0 <ngillm...@runbox.com> writes: > Hi, > > "Patricia J. Hawkins" <phawk...@connact.com> writes: > >> I'm just getting started setting up to use notmuch (your message >> attracted my attention to it!) but looks like the afew script is >> designed to do this, as a companion processer ("initial tagging") for >> notmuch. >> >> https://github.com/teythoon/afew > > I actually have that as a work in progress package, but I can no longer > work on it.. if I really do have it, there might be further dependencies > which are needed or a massive amount of tests which need to be patched. > Are you interested in taking this over? I just checked out the repository and branch I had on this, I was failing at the test suite of dbacl which is used by afew as a dependency. Fixing it after not looking at it for half a year is easy. It will be even easier when this qestion can be solved: all sample texts have declared licenses, I delete "sample6.txt" (license unknown, forwarded email) and "japanese.txt" (unofficial translation of GPL). For japanese.txt I'm not sure which copyright form applies.. same for this unclear document sample6, deleting was just to be on the safe side. Let me quote myself: 509 ;; The software is licensed as GPLv3 or later, but 510 ;; includes various sample texts in the doc dir: 511 ;; - sample1.txt, sample3 and sampe5.txt are in the public domain, 512 ;; by Mark Twain. 513 ;; - sample2.txt, sample4.txt are in the public domain, by Aristotle. 514 ;; - sample6.txt is a forwarded email, copyright unknown. 515 ;; Guix does exclude sample6.txt. 516 ;; - japanese.txt is a Japanese unoffical translation of the 517 ;; GNU General Public License, (c) by the Free Software Foundation. 518 ;; XXX: uncertain of license to apply. Left out for now. 519 (license '(license:gpl-3 license:public-domain)))) -- -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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