Re: [lmi] Licensing of libtiff and libjpeg-turbo

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:24:37 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> Apparently libtiff is free software:
[...]
GC> Apparently libjpeg-turbo is free software too:
[...]
GC> I conclude that these are now kosher, and gnu.org distributes them anyway
GC> with guix, so there's no objection to allowing them in our wx build. I'll
GC> soon push updates accordingly.

 Yes, I admit I've never understood what exactly were the objections to
using them in lmi as plenty of other GPL software used these libraries, so
I'm glad we don't have to worry about excluding them from build any longer.

 OTOH, just to play devil's advocate, lmi does not really need them and not
checking out these submodules and not building the corresponding libraries
as well the code in wxWidgets using them does save a bit of disk space/CPU
time. So while I definitely welcome the changes to wx_checks.cpp, I don't
think those to install_wx.sh (i.e. 2539270a8998575a023014d27f34825f4301c00a)
are really needed.

 But this is, of course, very minor, one way or the other.

 Regards,
VZ