Re: [PATCH]: gnu: Add STAR.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>> +    (license license:gpl3)))
>>
>> GPLv3-only?
>
> Actually, searching the source tree shows me that LICENSE includes the
> "or (at your option) any later version" phrase; but the included copy of
> htslib that is built as part of the STAR aligner is MIT licensed.
>
> I'll update the license field to
>
>   ;; STAR is licensed under GPLv3 or later; htslib is MIT-licensed.
>   (license (list license:gpl3+ license:expat))
>
> Is this appropriate?

Since the combined work is GPLv3+ anyway, I would keep the comment but
set the ‘license’ field to GPL3+.

Thanks,
Ludo’.