Hi, Brendan Tildesley transcribed 0.9K bytes: > I would like to package the cns-11643 fonts published at > http://data.gov.tw/node/5961 , however the license ( > http://data.gov.tw/license ) is the Open Government Data License > published by the Taiwanese government, and is not available in Guix. > > According to > > https://discuss.okfn.org/t/license-approval-request-open-government-data-license-taiwan-1-0/4593 > > and the license it's self (clause 4.2) The license is compatible with > the CC-BY 4.0 license, although that is not in Guix either it seems. I
CC-BY 3.0 is in Guix. Unless something fundamental changed in 4.0, 4.0 should be okay to add in the variants which are not CC-BY-NC. Licenses can be added in guix/licenses.scm > do not understand the legalities, but it seems that this license is only > really usable in Taiwan, and so we should use the CC-BY 4.0 instead. > > This is how debian has set their license file: > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/f/fonts-cns11643/fonts-cns11643_98.1+20150923-2_copyright > > In any case, I find it all rather perplexing. What is the appropriate > way to deal with this in Guix and how should this package's (license > ...) be set? > > -- PGP and more: https://people.pragmatique.xyz/ng0/
