Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 21:22 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: I wonder if with ACCEPT_LICENSES it would be possible to get a way to represent this issue, like a unredistributable fake license, disabled during GRP building for instance, so that the packages needing that license

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-24 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:22:54 +0100 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if with ACCEPT_LICENSES it would be possible to get a way to represent this issue, like a unredistributable fake license, disabled during GRP building for instance, so that the packages needing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-24 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Stephen Bennett wrote: Obviously though that doesn't work in the more general case where said linkage is not based on an optional dep, so something better would be useful. I'm not sure LICENSE is the right way forward here -- it would How bout using RESTRICT? RESTRIC=bindist or something, for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-24 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:51:24 +0100 Vlastimil Babka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How bout using RESTRICT? RESTRIC=bindist or something, for the unconditional violations? RESTRICT does not at present affect visibility of packages. I'd like to keep it that way. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, Right now the aac useflag enable support for MP4v2 tags writing through libmp4v2; the problem is that the library is licensed under MPL, while Amarok is licensed under GPL, and they are likely not compatible one to the other,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:35, Enrico Weigelt wrote: I'm not an license expert Then shut up. You're wrong, it's true for dynamic linking as well as for static linking. -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Sound,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 23 December 2006 17:34, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:35, Enrico Weigelt wrote: I'm not an license expert Then shut up. You're wrong, it's true for dynamic linking as well as for static linking. agreed on both points -mike pgpAOof6Yol88.pgp

[gentoo-dev] Marking GPL-incompatible linkage?

2006-12-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Trying to cleanup the faad/faac situation, I ended up thinking about a little situation with Amarok. Right now the aac useflag enable support for MP4v2 tags writing through libmp4v2; the problem is that the library is licensed under MPL, while Amarok is licensed under GPL, and they are likely