[arch-dev-public] License rebuild: last step

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Thu May 14 15:00:27 EDT 2009


Am Donnerstag 14 Mai 2009 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> Because I haven't gotten to it sooner: Eric, you're awesome for doing
> this. I send you many eHugs
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Just bumping to get more input.  And doing an update/summary at the same
> > time.
> >
> > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> 
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.
> >>
> >> codecs:
> >> emovix-codecs:
> >> - There is no license information in the tarball or on mplayer's site.
> >> Other distros use the following licenses:
> >
> > Do we keep them? Remove them? More input would be required to get a
> > concenssus.
>
> Let's remove it. It's not a dep of anything anyway.
>
> >> 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.
> >
> > James contacted the code author and got permission to patch it. So the
> > x86_64 package will be fixed and the license will be added.
>
> Can we make sure we include the permission blurb in the package license
> info?
>
> >> mkpxelinux:
> >> - Tobias P. custom script. License is unspecified. Tobias: can you
> >> give it a license?
> >
> > Still needs to be done.
>
> Pinging tpowa - please license this code.
Uh yeah sorry, as all mkxyz... programs GPL

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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