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Re: License auditing


From: Alex Griffin
Subject: Re: License auditing
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 16:11:43 -0500

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016, at 03:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> However, in Guix we encode such cases as ‘gpl3+’ (or similar), rather
> than ‘gpl1+’.

That seems wrong and confusing. It means that if I'm writing a GPLv2
program, for example, then I cannot rely on Guix to search for legally
compatible libraries to use. It also means we cannot implement a tool to
automatically flag Guix package dependencies for possible license
violations.
-- 
Alex Griffin



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