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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.

It's currently a (optional?) dep of a community pkg. See the first post.


>>
>> >> 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?

that has been mentionned in the bug report.

>>
>> >> 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

Are you going to rebuild it? Otherwise I could do it.

>
> greetings
> tpowa
>
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