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bug#27150: plan9-like text editor wily
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ng0 |
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bug#27150: plan9-like text editor wily |
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Thu, 1 Jun 2017 22:59:36 +0000 |
ng0 transcribed 1.5K bytes:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.2K bytes:
> > ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
> >
> > > From 551a544eab8f4295581ace79a5c8b5b2a9c3b581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: ng0 <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:08:24 +0000
> > > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add wily.
> > >
> > > * gnu/packages/text-editors.scm (wily): New variable.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > + (home-page "http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/")
> > > + (synopsis "Implementation of ACME")
> > > + (description
> > > + "Wily is a mouse-oriented, text-based environment for programmers.
> > > +It lets you interact with files, directories and programs through mouse
> > > and keyboard
> > > +operations on plain text. Most of Wily's design (but none of its code)
> > > comes
> > > +from Rob Pike's acme.")
> > > + (license license:gpl3+)))
> >
> > On closer inspection, the license is not GPLv3+ at all, AFAICS. There’s
> > an ‘Artistic’ file license with the old Artistic license, which is
> > non-free AFAIK. And there’s code in libframe/ for instance marked as:
> >
> > /* Copyright (c) 1992 AT&T - All rights reserved. */
> >
> > Lacking additional info, that makes it non-free. There’s also a bunch
> > of Plan 9 headers and stuff taken as-is.
> >
> > Do you know of free distros that provide Wily? Could you check whether
> > I’m missing something?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ludo’.
> >
>
> Oh no :(
>
> I must have missed this, I really thought I checked for licenses!
> So it keep in my package repository.
>
> Sorry.
> --
> ng0
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>
I am closing this bug. With 'Artistic' as a license
this will never be included in Guix master, case is
clear.
Thanks for the review
--
ng0
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