Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ECL.

2015-02-12 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Congratulations, indeed. :-) > > The intent for the ‘license’ field is mostly to describe the license of > the combined work (although apparently the intent was not crystal > clear.) > > In this case, I believe lgpl2.0+ “wins” over the other, more permissi

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ECL.

2015-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis: > It would be neat to have a page sequentially listing all the licenses we > support, with some short notice on each highlighting its distinguishing > features. I had to visit all the separate FSF wiki pages linked from > guix/lice

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ECL.

2015-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis: > +;; The file "Copyright" points to some files and directories which aren't > +;; under the lgpl2.0+ and instead contain many different licenses. The > +;; comments below should exhaust those files and directories, exc

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ECL.

2015-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:17:50AM +0100, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote: > Mark H Weaver writes: > > Yowza! I appreciate you being so thorough, but this may be a bit over > > the top :) I'd like to hear what Ludovic thinks before okaying a push. I think there is no problem in pushing the p

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ECL.

2015-02-12 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
Mark H Weaver writes: > In general, it's probably better to avoid unnecessary rearrangements > like this, since it will tend to cause conflicts when other people have > pending patches in the same module. OK, I undid that. > Our convention is to write (version-major+minor version) since it > re

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ECL.

2015-02-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes: > The license declaration of this recipe is noteworthy. I diligently > commented about the places each license appears in, from the non-LGPL2 > places mentioned in the "Copyright" file, so as to make it easier to > verify nothing ha