On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Eric Bélanger wrote:
Hi
The license rebuild for core/extra is almost done. Only a few problematic packages remains. I'll post the list here with potential solutions. Read along and comment/discuss as apropriate.
First up, a big cheer for Eric here! He has done a lot of work to get this finished.
Thanks. BTW, this will need to be done for the community repo as well although we'll need to wait until it uses svn before hosting the (L)GPL sources of community packages. However, I won't be doing it. I've done enough rebuild for a while. It will be up to these packages' maintainers and/or TUs. I've made a list: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_TODO#Commun... and there's a bug report in flyspray.
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codecs: emovix-codecs: - There is no license information in the tarball or on mplayer's site. <snip> If we assume that we are allowed to package these codecs, my favorite license is the NetBSD one. Only avifile in community has a specific depends on codecs. If it's not a true dependency like in mplayer (not tested), we could just remove them from the repo. Any comments?
Can't we just use "unknown" as in the packages below.
We could. But these codecs were made by big companies with money and lawyers and they care about licensing issues much more than the creators of vim plugins, say. I'm thinking that it might be better to have something more explicit. If the consensus is that "unknown" is OK, then we could go with it.
dgen-sdl: FS#12564 and license issue. x86_64 package will probably be removed because of this. I guess I could go ahead and add the license to the i686 package.
Or the whole package could go to unsupported...
That's another possiblity. That was my initial intention before realizing that removing the x86_64 package would be enough to fix the issue. It has a usage of 4.67 % so it's not really popular. In fact, for the rest of
the packages with issues you mentioned, I am fine with them going to unsupported. Most seem to be cruft at first glance.
Allan