From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code. Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 07:13:02 +0100 Message-ID: <20170302061302.GA4478@jocasta.intra> References: <87h93cn4ye.fsf@lassieur.org> <20170301202009.GA22689@jocasta.intra> <87fuiwn34o.fsf@lassieur.org> <87d1e0n18g.fsf@lassieur.org> <20170302055424.GA3674@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjJzJ-0000HJ-AF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:13:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjJzG-0007xe-6M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:13:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170302055424.GA3674@jocasta.intra> 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: John Darrington Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington , Cl??ment Lassieur --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Also pertinent: This program is listed in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Unrar-free J' On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 06:54:24AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: I don't have any strong opinions here. But if somebody feels that we = really cannot have this program in Guix, then go ahead and revert it. =20 In the meantime I will try to contact the authors and ask for clarific= ation. However since the project has been inactive for the last 13 years, I don't hol= d too much=20 hope of getting a reply. =20 J' =20 On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:19:59PM +0100, Cl??ment Lassieur wrote: >> Like you say, the authors have taken GPL code from another pro= ject and incorporated >> it into unrar - that is only possible if the the resultant wor= k is GPL compatible. > > Or if the resultant work is illegal? =20 Actually, unrarlib is dual-licensed, so it is possible to use it = within a proprietary program (see http://www.unrarlib.org/license.html). =20 But I'll trust you that COPYING is enough :) Sorry for bothering= you then. =20 =20 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. =20 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAli3t+4ACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OT3gCgimCcBZ9Zakk0tEnEV3LG5Yhq uHYAn14PUKZTbmfqhcMi7WEjYDJE4kbX =sjyu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--