John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:
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> 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.
Okay, I agree with this.
I don#t know how much is expected (from the test suite), but couldn't we
just delete the content and replace it with
# original sample text removed by Guix due to legal problems
こんにちは世界
or something like that, hopefully double checked by someone who actually
knows the language - for me it's been a 'todo' for years now :/
That would still enable the test to parse some text.
> 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))))
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