On 28 December 2014 at 18:02, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regarding externals, I don't understand what the licensing problems with > MiniZip and tidy-html are assumed to be. > > There is no licensing problem with appropriate derivatives of those > sources in our code base. The licenses are MIT/BSD-like and all we have to > do is honor and preserve them and the copyright notices. > To me the license problems start with the modifications, which are relatively undocumented and detecting which license they are made under is a challenge. > We do need to scrub out the MiniZip crypto provisions since they are not > used in document formats and they are cryptographically suspect anyhow. > That is not difficult. > That is the second problem. I have never said any of this is difficult but simply things to do. > > There are other appropriate MiniZip changes as well, including updating of > links in the code to material that is no longer at the indicated locations > or that may not be the best authoritative sources. > > I do recommend going to the later version of MiniZip that supports 64-bit > sizes though. And then looking into the zlib dependency. > I looked at that, and to me it looks just as easy to choose another package, because we have to identify and redo all the changes. We use only a fraction of what even minizip can, so there is also a small question about why so much for so little. My aim would be to find a library which we as an external library without source. rgds jan i. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 05:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: External libraries on windows > > On 28 December 2014 at 14:11, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For OS X and Linux, external libraries used by Corinthia are fairly > easily > > installed through package manages (e.g. apt-get on Ubuntu, homebrew on OS > > X). For windows however, someone who wants to build the project must > first > > go through a manual process of downloading various zip files, extracting > > them into the right locations etc. > > > > To make it easier, I suggest that we host a copy of the libraries > > necessary to build on Windows on the Corinthia website. I can put > together > > the directory structure and provide these as a zip file that someone can > > just download and extract to the right location. I think this would make > > development on windows a lot easier to begin for newcomers. > > > > Any objections to this? > > > [ ... ] > >
