From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code. Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:49:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20170302014959.GA23686@jasmine> References: <87h93cn4ye.fsf@lassieur.org> <20170301202009.GA22689@jocasta.intra> <87fuiwn34o.fsf@lassieur.org> <87d1e0n18g.fsf@lassieur.org> <87varscuy9.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjFsf-0003Kg-BN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:50:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjFsa-0006T1-Fe for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:50:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87varscuy9.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= Lassieur --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:45:50AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Cl=E9ment Lassieur writes: >=20 > >>> Like you say, the authors have taken GPL code from another project > >>> and incorporated > >>> it into unrar - that is only possible if the the resultant work is > >>> GPL compatible. > >> > >> Or if the resultant work is illegal? > > > > Actually, unrarlib is dual-licensed, so it is possible to use it within > > a proprietary program (see http://www.unrarlib.org/license.html). > > > > But I'll trust you that COPYING is enough :) Sorry for bothering you > > then. > > > > Cl=E9ment >=20 > I think Debian considered it to be non-free, see the package page[0] and > the copyright page[1]. > [0]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar I think this is a different program with the same name and purpose. --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAli3ekcACgkQJkb6MLrK fwhWKBAAo68VemiQA5bRTF6zY5VXcefGwO4SV/zqu586Fu4HHtNj0bjwbgnVOnIx +0IoEqFCcGJnpd7V1QcIvpwrXLMhoKmTt1I9y6pYCH18SBRbQDr3Zi+YtuNCYC+y 8RdFYI5hoyd6dj/5tM1vgT3Igv6owXVftDzKnNLlDOL1wwMNt+Cis1c0QaD3ABRv CmQ66muMOh+W93YyJFo/CUbnDimAQqx0VK/A4SESClp7sJMa/KHn0WuR54fGqgYi WBEP7xnep9614KEOBOMmhHM5NvfSg6OCIi2MfpL3Dl70RQfmhDJwhhJCgrjbHoTu Ri1PsoBOZ/5LOWzCqA4Wn5M6anG8nmsvovEkvZh1OuXCxl6+ISZQsYFzK3l8+vmP J+0h6fO6ehEpm2yQ+23zgg0qT0iXCiOk9eA/C7WI0Xsz+u7mhETi7N7WjbUxM/Y7 8RKtDurpAptFsp6JE6ER8dYpCZ2VtEme9gh9oW/HKQSokhDCcsySCymAgxSfqrIs u/7BF+qBPiVJWPFu6TRHQ1PMKgqO2+k/24jsNR5iiobyNAn9vbhuQuOmRdsqPyTF 4bVtbxy1hszsDVQT8EnHSSOifznHrV3ZcQC5usgzNX8x2fG5OV1oGsg6EP3W3Icq eL5jws0UfMjpdwpBWyKYmhcZX4tcRDMtvuaQK6nNJhdV4Wlx//0= =4b0/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--