Re: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages

[Richard Stallman]

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Thanks for checking 10 packages.  Your report makes the issue
completely clear.

This one package might actually be ok.

  > ttl-mode    Two-clause BSD licence

Is the license properly applied?  If so, I guess the license-checking
scripts should be fixed to take notice of it.

The rest are all real problems of greater or lesser severity.

  > achievements        No license    
  > gap-mode    No license    
  > riscv-mode  README.md says GPLv3+ but source file lacks license information
  > zig-mode    No license
  > airline-themes      No license    
  > ghc         According to LICENSE file: AGPL3 but files with BSD3 exists
  > darkane-theme       No license
  > kpm-list    Home made license!?
  > google-this Incomplete GPL license

For the moment, I don't think I need any more information about the
other packages.  The overall outlines of the problem are clear enough,
and one package more or less in each category won't change it much.

I will study the right way to address the situation.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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