[debbugs-tracker] bug#27150: closed (plan9-like text editor wily)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: plan9-like text editor wily Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 15:59:28 +0000

The text editor part works.

I'm not sure if it is supposed to do more
or be able to be useful for more...
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#27150: plan9-like text editor wily Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 22:59:36 +0000

ng0 transcribed 1.5K bytes:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> > ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
> > 
> > > From 551a544eab8f4295581ace79a5c8b5b2a9c3b581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: ng0 <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:08:24 +0000
> > > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add wily.
> > >
> > > * gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (wily): New variable.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > +    (home-page "http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/";)
> > > +    (synopsis "Implementation of ACME")
> > > +    (description
> > > +     "Wily is a mouse-oriented, text-based environment for programmers.
> > > +It lets you interact with files, directories and programs through mouse 
> > > and keyboard
> > > +operations on plain text.  Most of Wily's design (but none of its code) 
> > > comes
> > > +from Rob Pike's acme.")
> > > +    (license license:gpl3+)))
> > 
> > On closer inspection, the license is not GPLv3+ at all, AFAICS.  There’s
> > an ‘Artistic’ file license with the old Artistic license, which is
> > non-free AFAIK.  And there’s code in libframe/ for instance marked as:
> > 
> >   /* Copyright (c) 1992 AT&T - All rights reserved. */
> > 
> > Lacking additional info, that makes it non-free.  There’s also a bunch
> > of Plan 9 headers and stuff taken as-is.
> > 
> > Do you know of free distros that provide Wily?  Could you check whether
> > I’m missing something?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ludo’.
> > 
> 
> Oh no :(
> 
> I must have missed this, I really thought I checked for licenses!
> So it keep in my package repository.
> 
> Sorry.
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> ng0
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I am closing this bug. With 'Artistic' as a license
this will never be included in Guix master, case is
clear.

Thanks for the review
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