Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Philip Hands
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > On 30/03/17 21:29, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >>> * License Must Not Contaminate _Other_ Software >> >> A work which is a derivative work of another piece of software isn't >> merely distributed alongside. >

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2017-03-30 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1068 (new: 13) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 159 (new: 0) Total number of packages reque

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:28:46 -0400 Richard Fontana wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > > Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of the GPL > > program in question had any intention ever of not allowing their program > > to

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Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 08:05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:10:01PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3 [1] (therefore also with GPLv2+). > It's more complicated than "therefore also". > Imagine a GPL2+ program library linked with a GPL2 lib

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 21:29, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> * License Must Not Contaminate _Other_ Software > > A work which is a derivative work of another piece of software isn't > merely distributed alongside. > >> Shipping a collection of software on a

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 21:09, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > >> Instead, I'll repeat that licenses shouldn't be violated. One way of >> achieving that is to ask copyright holders for additional permissions >> that are needed to avoid a violation. > > The problem with this approach, though,

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 14:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes ("Re: System libraries and the GPLv2"): >> However, I still don't understand why we don't just declare OpenSSL a >> system library; or at least define a clear policy for when a package is >> considered part of the base system

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > Instead, I'll repeat that licenses shouldn't be violated. One way of > achieving that is to ask copyright holders for additional permissions > that are needed to avoid a violation. The problem with this approach, though, is that many of us have tried this with GPL softwa

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 19:12:53) > On 30/03/17 10:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 05:08:24) > >> On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: > >>> Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 > >>> +0200:

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2017-03-30 Thread Albert van der Horst
Package: wntpp Severity: wishlist Information: Homepage: https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth lina is a 32 bit classic Forth system, (mostly) compliant to the ISO Forth94 standard, with a library in source form. It is small, yet allows to generate elf-executables that can be shipped to an

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 10:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 05:08:24) >> On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: >>> Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 >>> +0200: I understand that Debian wants to take a position of zero (or

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Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:27:46AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > What really annoys me about this whole situation is this: I think no > one presently argues that the GPLv2 prevents people from distributing > pre-built binaries for proprietary operating systems. I can take > Hotspot (a component o

Bug#859112: ITP: node-quote-stream -- transform a stream into a quoted string

2017-03-30 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-quote-stream Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : James Halliday (http://substack.net) * URL : https://github.com/substack/quote-stream * License

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes ("Re: System libraries and the GPLv2"): > However, I still don't understand why we don't just declare OpenSSL a > system library; or at least define a clear policy for when a package is > considered part of the base system (so the GPL system exception applies > to

Bug#859106: ITP: node-object-key -- Object key helpers

2017-03-30 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-object-key Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Fabrício Tavares * URL : https://github.com/fabriciotav/object-key * License : Expat Programm

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:30:44AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Lars Wirzenius: > > > A compication in this is that even though the developers of a program > > would be happy with linking to OpenSSL, people who've written other > > libraries the program uses, or other code included in the prog

Bug#859095: ITP: node-combine-source-map -- Add source maps of multiple files and combine

2017-03-30 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-combine-source-map Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Thorsten Lorenz (http://thlorenz.com) * URL : https://github.com/thlorenz/combine-source-map *

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Philip Hands
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: >> Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 >> +0200: >>> On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > So, the best case situ

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 05:08:24) > On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 > > +0200: > >> I understand that Debian wants to take a position of zero (or > >> minimal) risk, and I also understand th

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lars Wirzenius: > A compication in this is that even though the developers of a program > would be happy with linking to OpenSSL, people who've written other > libraries the program uses, or other code included in the program, may > not be. I'm such a person. If some code I've released some code

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Richard Fontana: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > >> Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of the GPL >> program in question had any intention ever of not allowing their program >> to be used along with OpenSSL, when they wher

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:09:20AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Well, that's really new to me. Why would you object to link to OpenSSL? I'm not sure how to respond to this. I don't understand why it is new to you. The conflict between the OpenSSL and GPL licences is well known, at least within

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 mars 2017 10:46 +0300, Lars Wirzenius  : >> As Carlos, it's hard for me to believe anyone will object to OpenSSL >> linking, all the more when they implemented the support for it. > > A compication in this is that even though the developers of a program > would be happy with linking to OpenS

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Borowski: > The approach of commercial companies to both code and law is "it compiles? > Ship it!". They have sizeable legal departments, so the question they ask > themselves is not "is this legal?" but "are costs of possible litigation > smaller or greater than the cost of doing it corr

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 08:14:25AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > As Carlos, it's hard for me to believe anyone will object to OpenSSL > linking, all the more when they implemented the support for it. A compication in this is that even though the developers of a program would be happy with linking

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Josh Triplett: > The intention of the system library exception is to allow third > parties to ship Free Software on proprietary platforms, while > pointedly *disallowing* the vendor of the proprietary platform from > doing so. As historical precedent, note that some vendors explicitly > provide

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:28:46PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > > Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of the GPL > > program in question had any intention ever of not allowing their program