Re: [Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins: Having just one copy of GPL inside source tree / Waf size
Hey, On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:47:26 +0200 Enrico Tröger enrico.troe...@uvena.de wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:14:54 +0100, Nick wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:49:36 +0200 Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: during the work on Updatecheker I recognized another time that nearly every plugin is having its own copy of GPL. As most of the plugins code is licensed under GPL2+, what do you think of moving the individual copies of GPL into a central, geany-plugins-License as Then you would have to maintain a list of the plugins with the licenses they use. Not sure. I think when using GPL only (and from my understanding all plugins are currently inside geany-plugins) are currently maintained and distributed under terms of GPL2+ so a list wouldn't be needed. Nevertheless I understand you concerns behind and agree that if might not yet, but maybe in future the overhead on during some license stuff will significant increase when establishing something like that. If the GPL copies are virtually the same I guess they won't take space when they're compressed. I agree. First of all, all the license files are plain ASCII text which can be really good compressed. And as Nick said, since those files are the same, the compression ratio should be even higher. Additionally, compared to the rest of all the contents, the license files might not be the biggest factor. I've got the feeling that I cannot agree for 100% here as most of compression tools are working with fixed value bitstreams IIRC. But nevertheless, in genreal you are right, so we should keep it as it is. Also what if an author wanted to distribute their plugin separately? Also agree. Basically this I don't see as a valid argument, as if a developer is really planning to do so he will need to build up its own build system. Adding a copy of GPL will be the simplest task during this. However, based on the points I think maybe its really better to keep it as it is. Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/ pgpENF5O2k0Oq.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
Re: [Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins: Having just one copy of GPL inside source tree / Waf size
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:49:36 +0200 Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: during the work on Updatecheker I recognized another time that nearly every plugin is having its own copy of GPL. As most of the plugins code is licensed under GPL2+, what do you think of moving the individual copies of GPL into a central, geany-plugins-License as the package is most likely distributed under a common license and this would save a lot of space inside tarball etc.? If the GPL copies are virtually the same I guess they won't take space when they're compressed. Also what if an author wanted to distribute their plugin separately? Regards, Nick ___ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
Re: [Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins: Having just one copy of GPL inside source tree / Waf size
Accidentally left an edited subject line, please ignore :-/ (./waf seems to be only 60k so not an issue) Regards, Nick ___ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
Re: [Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins: Having just one copy of GPL inside source tree / Waf size
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:14:54 +0100, Nick wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:49:36 +0200 Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: during the work on Updatecheker I recognized another time that nearly every plugin is having its own copy of GPL. As most of the plugins code is licensed under GPL2+, what do you think of moving the individual copies of GPL into a central, geany-plugins-License as Then you would have to maintain a list of the plugins with the licenses they use. If the GPL copies are virtually the same I guess they won't take space when they're compressed. I agree. First of all, all the license files are plain ASCII text which can be really good compressed. And as Nick said, since those files are the same, the compression ratio should be even higher. Additionally, compared to the rest of all the contents, the license files might not be the biggest factor. Also what if an author wanted to distribute their plugin separately? Also agree. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc pgpg5XdTFyqhD.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
