[aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

Manhong Dai daimh at umich.edu
Tue May 25 13:59:43 UTC 2021


On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 12:56 +0000, Antoine Viallon via aur-general
wrote:
> 24 mai 2021 09:11 "Miguel Revilla Rodríguez via aur-general" <  
> aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> a
> écrit:
> 
> > Then we only have to start using xdelta instead of diff to create
> > the
> > patches and we will be fine, as the deltas don't contain any of the
> > original code, but only instructions on how to convert it to the
> > new one.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we could also use `diff -U0`, as
> it does not include any
> context at all.
> Only and strictly only the lines added and removed are mentionned.
> This means that, if you do not remove any lines at all, you should be
> fine.
> 
> Antoine Viallon (aviallon)

Unfortunately it still uses the original code. Here is my test.

$ diff -U0 <(seq 900 1000)  <(seq 900 1000 | sed -e "s/999/99999999/" )
--- /dev/fd/63	2021-05-25 09:57:37.954088656 -0400
+++ /dev/fd/62	2021-05-25 09:57:37.954088656 -0400
@@ -100 +100 @@
-999
+99999999

Note the '-999' part.

Best,
Manhong


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