szip unfree or not is an issue independent of your pull request. I merged - thanks a lot!
Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> writes: > Andreas Herrmann <[email protected]> writes: >> Well, my reason for not including szip by default was it's license. >> >> Quoting the hdf5-group page [1]: >> >>> Licensing terms >>> The version of Szip distributed with HDF products is free for >>> non-commercial use, which may occur in two sets of circumstances: >>> Non-commercial users may use the Szip software integrated with HDF >>> products to both encode (compress) and decode (uncompress) data. This >>> applies to educational and research applications. >>> Commercial users may use the software to decode any data. Further, they >>> may use the software in internal activities that do not involve or result >>> in the development of an Szip-based software product. >>> Commercial licenses are available for commercial users who wish to >>> distribute an Szip-based software product or engage in commercial uses that >>> are not allowed above. For further licensing information or to view a copy >>> of the Szip copyright statement, see Commercial use terms and the copyright >>> and license notice pertaining to Szip in HDF products. >> >> So, it's a license that requires some thought to figure out if you're >> allowed to use it or not. I thought it would be better not to include it by >> default, so that no one breaks the license unknowingly. >> >> I don't know what the Nix policy generally is, when it comes to licenses. >> Basically, I'm returning the question: Is it okay to include this package >> by default, or not? > > I think you were right in not including the support by default. > > Further, szip might have to set meta.license = "unfree", so you need to > allow it eg. in ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix. > > { > allowUnfree = true; > } > > Opinions? > > -- > Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> > GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 > Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] > IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC -- Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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