From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add GeoGebra
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:13:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inxs9ffz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601110823.GA17145@solar> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:08:23 +0200")
Hi,
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 12:35:29PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>> It is difficult to tell what parts are non-free or not. I mean, some
>> parts are obvious (web, installer) and are not provided in the current
>> package. However, I don't think there is an exhaustive list of non-free
>> elements.
>>
>> OTOH Debian provides it in "main" repository, albeit in version 4.
>> I don't think the software was re-licensed between versions 4 and 5,
>> tho.
>
> the Debian package is called "geogebra-4.0.34.0+dfsg1-3"; the "dfsg" indicates
> that non-free parts of the source code have been dropped. You can browse the
> Debian source code at
> https://sources.debian.net/src/geogebra/4.0.34.0%2Bdfsg1-3/debian/ ;
> in particular, see these:
> https://sources.debian.net/src/geogebra/4.0.34.0%2Bdfsg1-3/debian/README.Debian/
> https://sources.debian.net/src/geogebra/4.0.34.0%2Bdfsg1-3/debian/README.source/
> https://sources.debian.net/src/geogebra/4.0.34.0%2Bdfsg1-3/debian/get_orig_source.sh/
>
> All this looks like a lot of work; your call to decide how much you would
> like to invest into this program.
Indeed, non-trivial work. :-/
Regardless, for inclusion in Guix, it will have to be built from source,
which means packaging Gradle and other dependencies first.
Ricardo has experience dealing with Java packages and maybe has useful
insight?
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-02 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-29 21:38 [PATCH] Add GeoGebra Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-30 15:23 ` Alex Vong
2016-05-31 16:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-01 10:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-06-01 11:08 ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-02 8:13 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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