Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: inkscape: New module

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:09:02AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:

[...]

>      > +    (description "Inkscape is a free vector graphics editor similar to
>      > +proprietary competitors. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of 
> Scalable
>      > +Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native 
> format.")   
>      
>      I removed the ???free??? and the reference to proprietary competitors.
>
> Fair enough.  The blurb on the website mentions them by name. I decided to 
> drop
> the names.  If you want to omit any mention altogether, I don't have any 
> objection.

Yeah, what we agreed on long ago was to not mention “free” in
descriptions (or similar), because everything is free in the distro.
Also the GCS have long recommended against referring to non-free
software, and it clearly doesn’t bring much here (the situation may be
different for software that aims for interoperability with non-free
software, like LibreDWG or Octave.)

>      > +    (license license:gpl2))) ;; Somewhat ambiguous whether v2 or v2+ 
> is intended
>      
>      It???s actually GPLv2+ since the source files do not specify the version.
>
> It kind of does indirectly. It says "Under GPL - See the file COPYING" and
> COPYING contains the text for v2.   I thought it safer to assume v2 only.

GPLv2 reads:

  If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you
  may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

Thanks,
Ludo’.