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Leo,

On 05/11/16 19:56, Leo Famulari wrote:
> My 2¢ are quoted from the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines
> [0], which Guix does follow:
>
> [...] they're often worded so as to make it hard to tell what they
> do or don't cover, [...]

I got the same vibes from the answers in that GitHub thread[0]. I'm
easily suspicious.

> [...] On the other hand, we also don't object if a distributor
> chooses to omit some software in order to avoid patent risk.

This is (partly) what prompted me to write to guix-devel in the first
place: I wasn't sure if the Guix maintainers have their own opinions on
the matter.

> But like I said, my opinion on this subject is only worth 2¢ ;)

Still more sense than I started with. Thanks!

Kind regards,

T G-R

> [0]: Also see the statement by the maintainer / author Yann Collet:
> https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/335#issuecomment-245011724



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