[aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

[lawl]

The license is very clear. I am not going to debate with everyone if any individual patch is acceptable or not.

I expect the ArchLinux project will comply with the license and I'm unsubscribing again from this mailing list since there is nothing to discuss.

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On Monday, May 17, 2021 3:39 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.org> wrote:

> 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.