Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add tftp-hpa.

[Thomas Danckaert]

From: Boskovits, Gábor <address@hidden>
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add tftp-hpa.
Date: Mon,  6 Feb 2017 00:33:31 +0100

> ---
>  gnu/packages/tftp-hpa.scm | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

Hi!

I tested the patch and the package builds fine.

> +    (description
> +     "This is a tftp client derived from OpenBSD tftp with some 
> extra options
> +added and bugs fixed.  The source includes readline support but it 
> is not
> +enabled due to licence conflicts between the BSD advertising 
> clause and the GPL.")

“licence”->“license”

> [...]
> I would like to get some assistance in selecting a category for this
> package.

I'll let someone else comment on this :).

> Should it be networking, or something else?
>
> I would be glad if someone could also verify if my licese selection
> is correct.

Af for the license issues: I think bsd-4 is correct, but about the 
disabled GPL code: I think you can actually distribute a combined 
work of GPL and BSD as GPL, as long as you specify that the BSD parts 
of it are also BSD-licensed?  In the package's license field, you 
could say "(license (list gpl1 bsd-4))"

If you send an updated patch, you will also be asked to follow the 
gnu commit message guidelines (take a look at the log for 
inspiration).  Your commit title would be  something like “gnu: Add 
tftp-hpa.” and the body will mention the new variable.

cheers,

Thomas