Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking

[Jean Louis]

On that I did not look into original packages, but only those distributed by 
Melpa and I do think that many without license on Melpa have their license 
somewhere.

It does not change the condition that distributing packages without license is 
license violations, and that nonGnu ELPA has to do it better without comparing 
to Melpa.


On December 13, 2020 8:56:09 AM UTC, Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de> 
wrote:
>> If someone is willing to focus on organizing this effort, it might do
>> some good.  One very good step would be to convince GitHub to
>identify
>> packages with the modern SPDX identifiers.
>
>GitHub does already try to recognize the license used by a repository
>using heuristics. These can be programmatically fetched:
>
>    $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
>        https://api.github.com/repos/melpa/melpa/license | grep spdx
>    "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
>
>Repeating this process for some packages mentioned previously in this
>discussion (the 0x0 one has been omitted as it's hosted on sr.ht):
>
>    $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
>https://api.github.com/repos/davidshepherd7/aggressive-fill-paragraph-mode/license
>| grep spdx              
>    "spdx_id": "GPL-3.0",
>    $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
>https://api.github.com/repos/alan-platform/AlanForEmacs/license | grep
>spdx 
>    "spdx_id": "MIT",
>    $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
> https://api.github.com/repos/rolandwalker/anaphora/license | grep spdx
>    $ curl --silent -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
>https://api.github.com/repos/davidshepherd7/anki-mode/license | grep
>spdx
>    "spdx_id": "AGPL-3.0",
>
>That gives me a more precise picture than Jean Louis' analysis I've
>taken these packages from. The only license that couldn't be identified
>is for the anaphora repository which doesn't have a LICENSE file, but
>instead embeds a public domain notice inside the source code.


Jean