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Re: Question about multiple licenses


From: Arun Isaac
Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 17:15:23 +0530

Dave Love writes:

> Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Based on the above general argument, I think we should list all the
>> licenses instead of just GPLv2+ since it would be inaccurate to say that
>> the whole program is under just GPLv2+.
>
> Indeed.  Not only do you need to list the licences (according to all
> "legal advice" I've seen for distributions), but normally also
> distribute the relevant licence texts, even for permissive licences if
> they require that (e.g. BSD).  I raised this recently, as it's not
> generally being done, so some Guix binary packages appear to be
> copyright-infringing.

I pushed linkchecker with all the licenses listed. So, I guess we've
done the right thing with respect to this package.



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