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

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Thu May 14 15:07:49 EDT 2009


Am Donnerstag 14 Mai 2009 schrieb 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.
I can do it tomorrow, while adding also optdepend array
greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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