Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-12 Thread mhw
Eric Bavier writes: > Bishmer J. Sekaran writes: > >> re: Licensing, my impression was that "gpl2+" only applies if the >> authors specifically invoke "any later version" when they distribute the >> software, per clause 9 of the GPL 2 > > [...] > >> Upstream lists the project as: >> "License >>

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Bishmer J. Sekaran" skribis: > I would also hope we are willing to accept all useful free software, > regardless of provenance, for inclusion in Guix. Yes, that’s always been the case. Though in general it’s nice to entice authors of forks of GNU packages to get them merged back, if they haven

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-12 Thread Eric Bavier
Bishmer J. Sekaran writes: > re: Licensing, my impression was that "gpl2+" only applies if the > authors specifically invoke "any later version" when they distribute the > software, per clause 9 of the GPL 2 [...] > Upstream lists the project as: > "License > GNU General Public License versio

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-12 Thread Bishmer J. Sekaran
Mark, Thanks for comments on technical points. I'll fix the mirror link and re-mail the patch with mutt. Is the license really gpl2 and not gpl2+? re: Licensing, my impression was that "gpl2+" only applies if the authors specifically invoke "any later version" when they distribute the sof

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-12 Thread Bishmer J. Sekaran
This should be something starting with mirror://sourceforge/ potentially mirror://sourceforge/dcfldd/dcfldd/1.3.4-1/dcfldd- (I always try it out). Maybe you could also string-append once more with the version to get rid of the middle "1.3.4.-1" and make updates easier. Thank you, will fix.

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-10 Thread Mark H Weaver
"Bishmer J. Sekaran" writes: > Oops, corrected homepage. > > On 08/04/14 11:25, Bishmer J. Sekaran wrote: >> From fadbb3a11b972499e4fe5a2f6ec69c98b387ecc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" >> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:21:

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I did not give it a try, but the package looks generally good to me. On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 08:00:24PM +0800, Bishmer J. Sekaran wrote: > >"http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/dcfldd/dcfldd/1.3.4-1/dcfldd-"; This should be something starting with mirror://sourceforge/ potentially

Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-04 Thread Bishmer J. Sekaran
Oops, corrected homepage. On 08/04/14 11:25, Bishmer J. Sekaran wrote: From fadbb3a11b972499e4fe5a2f6ec69c98b387ecc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:21:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Add dcfldd --- gnu-system.am |

[PATCH] Add dcfldd

2014-08-03 Thread Bishmer J. Sekaran
>From fadbb3a11b972499e4fe5a2f6ec69c98b387ecc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:21:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Add dcfldd --- gnu-system.am | 1 + gnu/packages/dcfldd.scm | 51 +