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x/pkgsite: GPL3 considered a "permissive license" #43758

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nickjwhite opened this issue Jan 18, 2021 · 8 comments
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x/pkgsite: GPL3 considered a "permissive license" #43758

nickjwhite opened this issue Jan 18, 2021 · 8 comments
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I have several packages licensed under GPLv3, which is correctly detected by pkg.go.dev. However I noticed today that in the "details" bar on the right one of the features described is "permissive license". Normally that's a term used for non-copyleft licenses like ISC. An example page where this is the case would be this: https://pkg.go.dev/rescribe.xyz/preproc

In https://pkg.go.dev/about#best-practices-h2 it states that "For more information on how pkg.go.dev determines if a license is permissive, see our license policy", linking to https://pkg.go.dev/license-policy, but that only seems to detail how licenses are detected (which is done correctly in this case), not how "permissive license" is determined.

I think copyleft licensed projects should not be tagged with "permissive license", and ideally tagged "copyleft license" instead, in the details box.
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ALTree commented Jan 18, 2021

cc @julieqiu

@ALTree ALTree added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Jan 18, 2021
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A better term to describe what the pkgsite cares about might be "redistributable license".

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/cc @jba

@julieqiu julieqiu modified the milestones: Unreleased, pkgsite/licenses Jan 19, 2021
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jba commented Jan 19, 2021

"Redistributable" is the word we use internally, but we worried that it might sound too legalistic. But I suppose that is the right term, so we should use it.

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mvdan commented Jan 19, 2021 •
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For the sake of keeping the language simple, how about "Can be distributed" or "Can be distributed freely"? Or "Allows distribution".

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@jba This should be closed as it wasn't done automatically by golang/pkgsite@5b39ce4 due to a small misspelling.

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jba commented Jan 20, 2021

We went with "redistributable." We can always change later.

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Great, thanks all. I think "redistributable" is clear enough.

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