Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > ng0 <contact....@cryptolab.net> writes: > >> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: >> >>> ng0 <n...@libertad.pw> writes: >>> >>>> * gnu/packages/messaging.scm (loudmouth): New variable. >>>> --- >>>> gnu/packages/messaging.scm | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- >>>> 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/messaging.scm b/gnu/packages/messaging.scm >>>> index 2be3b0969..d6b0d4bbc 100644 >>>> --- a/gnu/packages/messaging.scm >>>> +++ b/gnu/packages/messaging.scm >>>> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ >>>> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> >>>> ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> >>>> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> >>>> -;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <n...@libertad.pw> >>>> +;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 <contact....@cryptolab.net> >>>> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Andy Patterson <ajpat...@uwaterloo.ca> >>>> ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> >>>> ;;; >>>> @@ -1120,4 +1120,34 @@ Conferencing (PSYC). psycLPC is a fork of LDMud >>>> with some new features and >>>> many bug fixes.") >>>> (license license:gpl2)))) >>>> >>>> +(define-public loudmouth >>>> + (package >>>> + (name "loudmouth") >>>> + (version "1.5.3") >>>> + (source >>>> + (origin >>>> + (method url-fetch) >>>> + (uri (string-append "https://mcabber.com/files/loudmouth/"; >>>> + name "-" version ".tar.bz2")) >>>> + (sha256 >>>> + (base32 >>>> + "0b6kd5gpndl9nzis3n6hcl0ldz74bnbiypqgqa1vgb0vrcar8cjl")))) >>>> + (build-system gnu-build-system) >>>> + (inputs >>>> + `(("gnutls" ,gnutls) >>>> + ("glib" ,glib) >>>> + ("libidn" ,libidn))) >>>> + (native-inputs >>>> + `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) >>>> + ("check" ,check) >>>> + ("glib" ,glib "bin") ; gtester >>>> + ("gtk-doc" ,gtk-doc))) >>>> + (home-page "http://mcabber.com/";) >>>> + (description >>>> + "Loudmouth is a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming >>>> +with the Jabber protocol. It's designed to be easy to get started with >>>> +and yet extensible to let you do anything the Jabber protocol allows.") >>>> + (synopsis "Asynchronous XMPP library") >>>> + (license license:lgpl2.1))) >>> >>> According to Debian, the license is lgpl2.0+. Can you check this again? >>> >>> Mark >>> >> >> Sorry for all the mistakes, I wasn't very present when I wrote >> this. >> But, the license is correct. I haven't looked at debian because I >> have the source, and it is 2.1 here. > > I just looked, and the source files say this: > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as > published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the > License, or (at your option) any later version. > > That means lgpl2.0+, as the Debian maintainer concluded. > > Have you been concluding the licenses based solely on the COPYING file > (or similar) present in the tarball? If so, you may have been getting > it wrong for a long time. The copyright notices in the source files are > the relevant thing to check. I usually check Debian's copyright files, > since they've already done the hard work. > > Thanks, > Mark
First I look for a note in README, then I will look at COPYING/LICENSE, then I will grep for "or later", "license", and similar words and certain similar manual steps. Confusing source. Okay, thanks. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/
