Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add psutils.

[Andreas Enge]

Am Montag, 21. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

> > Does it qualify as "bsd-like"?

> It looks like BSD-3 to me, or at least “BSD-like”.

 

Sort of. Except that the second clause states that source code needs to be provided, whereas BSD just states that binary distributions need to keep the copyright notice.

 

I could also add an entry to the licenses file, but I am afraid we might end up with almost as many licenses as packages.

 

> > If not, would it make sense to add a license "other" to licenses.scm,

> > which takes the same parameters as "bsd-like"?

> I think (guix licenses) should export the constructor, but under the

> name ‘make-license’ to avoid clashes with the ‘license’ field in

> ‘package’ records.

 

Is this not exactly how bsd-style operates?

 

> Please align the opening paren under the ‘u’.

> Please put the comment above the line it refers to, and move closing

> parentheses to the end of the line.

 

Okay, no problem.

 

Andreas