[aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

Doug Newgard scimmia at archlinux.org
Mon May 17 13:39:58 UTC 2021


On Mon, 17 May 2021 13:32:26 +0000
lawl via aur-general <aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I'm the developer of NoiseTorch (https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/).
> I faithfully believe that the package "noisetorch" in the ArchLinux User Repository ("AUR") (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/noisetorch/) violates my license (GPLv3).
> 
> I have the asked previous maintainer of this package to not apply patches or make it clear that this is a fork that's being conveyed. Several Arch Linux trusted users were also informed of this: https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/issues/2#issuecomment-785262068
> 

The "patches" you're talking about are those to apply the correct version for
packaging? There's no way any reasonable person would find that violates the
licensing.


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