Re: linux-libre source tarballs

2021-05-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 6, 2021, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: >> recipes as to the possibilities of getting to the GNU Linux-libre >> sources from it, how to verify signatures, etc > I for one have not seen them. Would you mind making them available > somewhere? I'd be interested in

About emacs-pyim-basedict

2021-05-08 Thread tumashu
Hello emacs-pyim-basedict is a GNU elpa package, suggest use elpa method :-) http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=ccaf29afd0b8093067dbf43d48e21d7a5e741006

Re: The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?)

2021-05-08 Thread Leo Prikler
Am Samstag, den 08.05.2021, 22:52 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos: > Leo Prikler schreef op za 08-05-2021 om 12:16 [+0200]: > > [... something about dependencies and copyleft ...] > > [...] > > However, compliance is not *that* simple. If you're dealing with > > copyleft, providing the source is not

Re: Expat 2.3.0 has been released

2021-05-08 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello everyone, just a quick heads up that there will be a new release of libexpat with security fix in a few weeks. Unless I looked in the wrong place, I noticed that your distro has not updated to libexpat 2.3.0 as of today. If you ran into any issues with packaging 2.3.0, please let me know

Re: The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?)

2021-05-08 Thread Maxime Devos
Leo Prikler schreef op za 08-05-2021 om 12:16 [+0200]: > [... something about dependencies and copyleft ...] > [...] > However, compliance is not *that* simple. If you're dealing with > copyleft, providing the source is not enough, you also need to license > your own work under that copyleft

GNU Guix 1.3.0rc2 available for testing!

2021-05-08 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Guix! A second RC for the upcoming 1.3.0 release is now available for testing: source: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.3.0rc2.tar.gz binary tarball (to install on a “foreign distro”): https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.3.0rc2.aarch64-linux.tar.xz

Re: Interesting reading for minimalists, esp mes folks? :)

2021-05-08 Thread Bengt Richter
On +2021-05-08 12:56:36 +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: > Hi minimalists :) > Forgot the main project link [6] ;/ > In case you hadn't yet come across this (LWN did a piece [5] about a year ago, > which was the first I heard of it. (Chasing a dream led me to check > more current status) Enjoy :) > >

Re: The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?)

2021-05-08 Thread Leo Prikler
Am Samstag, den 08.05.2021, 13:17 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > Leo Prikler writes: > > > For the record, what command gives you transitive source > > closure? I > > can see transitive binary closure with `guix pack`, but I don't > > think > > we do source closure unless asked to `guix

Re: The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?)

2021-05-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Prikler writes: For the record, what command gives you transitive source closure? I can see transitive binary closure with `guix pack`, but I don't think we do source closure unless asked to `guix build --no-substitutes`. Maybe a missing feature? “guix build --sources=transitive

Interesting reading for minimalists, esp mes folks? :)

2021-05-08 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi minimalists :) In case you hadn't yet come across this (LWN did a piece [5] about a year ago, which was the first I heard of it. (Chasing a dream led me to check more current status) Enjoy :) [1] https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/11779/pdf/OASIcs-NG-RES-2020-3.pdf [2]

Re: The purpose of the "license" list of a Guix package (Was: Re: Jam: which licence is this?)

2021-05-08 Thread Leo Prikler
Hi, Am Freitag, den 07.05.2021, 11:31 -0700 schrieb Chris Marusich: > My understanding is that the intent of the "license" > field (which can be a list) in a Guix package is to call out the > "main" > (deliberately vague here) licenses related to the code, not to > provide > an exhaustive or