From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:45:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8w9l7zl.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lglliidc.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:29:03 +0800")
On Mon 11 Sep 2017 13:29, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Well, from what I know about copyright, that isn't the licence of glibc,
>>> which is the sum of all the licences involved, and you'd have to know
>>> how to find them if you didn't just unpack the tarball. With pack
>>> output in a lot of cases you don't have the information.
>>
>> Right, ‘guix pack’ makes things more complicated—although I would argue
>> that, contrary to Dockerfiles and the like (which nobody seems to
>> complain about), Guix makes it easier to do provenance tracking since
>> there’s an unambiguous source → binary mapping.
>>
> Does 'guix pack' currently included the source that uses to build the
> pack? Will including the source signaficantly increases the size of the
> pack? Or should we add a flag for building a "source pack"?
It does not. Guix's idea of "source" is larger than copyright's idea of
source I think -- i.e. the compiler doesn't impose additional copyright
concerns on binary products, but it does form part of what Guix
considers to be source.
More concretely... if this is necessary (and I suspect but don't know
that it is,) probably the easiest thing would be for each package to
install a copyright file in its output derivations. Then a "guix pack"
would include them automatically. It would be good to symlink/dedup
common copyright files of course, but that can be a later step.
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-11 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-26 7:40 Question about multiple licenses Arun Isaac
2017-08-28 10:45 ` Alex Vong
2017-08-28 17:25 ` Arun Isaac
2017-08-28 17:29 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-08-29 6:30 ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-01 11:43 ` Dave Love
2017-09-02 16:54 ` Alex Vong
2017-09-07 16:21 ` Dave Love
2017-09-03 11:45 ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-04 14:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-07 16:20 ` Dave Love
2017-09-10 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-11 11:29 ` Alex Vong
2017-09-11 12:45 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2017-09-12 22:15 ` Dave Love
2017-09-12 22:13 ` Dave Love
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