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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest |
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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:18:42 +0200 |
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:08:56AM +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> Hmmm. Perhaps the answer, then, is to make a nice (public domain!)
> plugin-registry egg that handles this for us.
Feel free to write one :)
> >Also note that the LGPL is incompatible with the GPL in that you cannot
> >link a LGPL library or program to a GPL library(!) I think if we build
> >a license checking feature into chicken-install, it should handle
> >incompatible licenses in general.
>
> Hmmm, true. As long as this can be done with a simple (read:
> non-bloating) extension inside chicken-install, with all the evil stored
> in some kind of license metadata.
Yeah. I think chicken-install could have a simple alist of
license->incompatible licenses or license->compatible licenses
for each license.
I'm not sure what to do about unknowns though. I'm sure nobody is going
to like checking each and every license's interaction with other licenses.
> Also, I think that chicken-install should not *forbid* license clashes,
> merely *warn* about them. License clashes are generally a problem for
> people wanting to distribute binaries, and not an issue at all for
> people just hacking around at home, right?
Agreed. But some projects by people hacking around at home have a
tendency to become larger, and then it can become an issue. So I
think the warning should be VERY INSISTENT about it ;)
We could do it ala pkgsrc: block it by default, and allow it if you
set an override (which should be mentioned in the warning message).
But let's start with a simple warning.
Cheers,
Peter
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- [Chicken-hackers] Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Jim Ursetto, 2010/08/23
- [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Kon Lovett, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Kon Lovett, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest,
Peter Bex <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Felix, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, John Cowan, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, John Cowan, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Magnus Achim Deininger, 2010/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, John Cowan, 2010/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Magnus Achim Deininger, 2010/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2010/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Magnus Achim Deininger, 2010/08/26