Hi,
I have skimmed through the patch, the website of geogebra, and I have noticed some problems. + ;; Move ".jar" files and license into "share/geogebra/". It seems the jar files are copied into the installation directory. This is no good because guix requires compiling everything from source (except the bootstrap binaries). There is an ant-build-system in guix (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00207.html), you may find it useful. + ;; Source code uses GPLv3+. Other parts (e.g., translations) use + ;; a Non-Commercial clause. This is hairy. I have looked at the website. At the top of the website, it said "You are free to copy, distribute and transmit GeoGebra for non-commercial purposes (please see details below)." But at the end of the website, it said "Please note that GeoGebra as a complete software program would probably not be considered "free" software according to the definition of that term which is used \ by the Free Software Foundation. This is because the restrictions on commercial use that apply to the GeoGebra installers, web services and language files add-ons m\ ight be seen to be a restriction on the software as a whole (thus making it "non-free"), even though the GeoGebra source code is made available under the GNU General Public License without restriction. You can rest assured that our license terms fully respect \ all existing licenses from third parties (including the GNU General Public License and all Creative Commons variants) and have been checked by an experienced \ law firm." I guess this means the source is free-sw, but not the binaries and translation, so we would have add a build phase to delete those non-free parts. How do the other think about the license? Thanks, Alex On 30/05/2016, Nicolas Goaziou <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The following patch adds GeoGebra. Please consider adding it to the > repository. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou 0x80A93738 >
