On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 07:02:48AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > 2015-03-20 6:40 GMT+01:00 Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org>: > > Hi Michael, > > > >>>>>>>>> On 16 March 2015 at 23:15, Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org> > >>>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> Hi Dimitri, > >> > >>>>>> Just tell patch or git to skip the hunks modifying ids-update.pl and > >>>>>> sdio.ids. Problem solved. > >>>>> > >>>>> I'll apply the patch, but with a slightly different motivation. > >>>>> > >>>>> [L]GPL requires commercial entities distributing a modified version of > >>>>> the program to provide full source in the preferred form for > >>>>> modification, > >>>>> including all scripts used for building. This includes sdio.ids and > >>>>> ids-update.pl. We should make it easy to follow the our licensing, so > >>>>> we should include those files in our tarball to make it directly > >>>>> redistributable. > >>>> > >>>> that is just making stuff up. > >>> Where was I wrong? > >>> > >>>> Are you now also including usb.ids? > >>> We probably should > >>> > >> > >> Right, we should include all source files, not only the generated files. > > > > is this turning in Freaky Friday now? Can we please be real for a bit. > > > > You do realize that I did not put a copyright header on top of sdio.ids. In > > addition this information will be most likely considered a not > > copyrightable piece of source anyway. If we assume that this is > > non-copyrightable, then how can you apply a copyleft license to it?
It's not about applying a license to sdio.ids. If may just as well be non-copyrightable. It's just distributed because in the tarball because it is one of the things necessary to generate a patch. Now, in practice, any sane person would clone the repository and do modifications there, but the terms of our license demand that redistributors redistribute the source. I think it makes sense to set things up so that if they just use the tarball, they actually are doing that. Zbyszek > Are you saying https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/v2.2/pci.ids is wrong in adding > a license header? > > What is the preferred form of modification? The hwdb files or the .ids > files? Where do users add new entries: to the hwdb files or the .ids > files? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
