Re: [GNUnet-developers] a solution for integrated package definitions; gnurl and the copyrights

[ng0]

Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> writes:

> I do not see the copyright assignment apply to gnurl in any way, it
> would not help anyway as (1) it is questionable that our changes to curl
> are even copyrightable, and (2) the copyrights clearly are with the curl
> devs, so we would not succeed at centralizing anyway.  Finally, the
> issues pEp/Taler has are primarily with strong copyleft code (*), and
> curl/gnurl are weak copyleft.  Hence, we also have no _need_ for this
> for curl/gnurl anyway, as far as I can see.

For 1 and 2 I agree. I wasn't sure about the relation and exact
reasons, which is why I asked to make sure someone didn't miss
something. Thank you for answering this part of my message.

By the way as a general note regarding gnurl (gnURL ?), if this
bug is fixed before the next release (of cURL), I can use "make
dist" again:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2016-12/msg00218.html
(quoting)

 “ltmain.sh” is instantiated from a template by libtool.  It originally
 contains a /bin/sh shebang, and I think it should not be patched when
 installed to

     /gnu/store/…-libtool-2.4.6/share/libtool/build-aux/ltmain.sh

 This seems like a bug to me.

Definitely:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ head -1 $(find $(guix build libtool) -name ltmain.sh)
#!/gnu/store/qkw4zrwfybxww8f56nkb6hggxambk89b-bash-4.4.0/bin/sh
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> (*) For example, Apple appstore forbids GPL, but AFAIK not LGPL. Hence
> GNUnet being GPL is an issue for a pEp/GNUnet-to-iOS port.  Also, Taler
> Systems may want to make some code for merchants available under LGPL,
> and libgnunetutil is currently GPL. curl's license has no impact here.
>
> On 12/31/2016 11:40 PM, ng0 wrote:
>> I have a question I forgot to ask during the meeting...
>> Following the copyright assignment (I still have to get my
>> printer working again), how will gnurl be treated? Are there any
>> changes for gnurl I have to make? Can changes be made, or will it
>> just be left as is?
>
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