Re: [PATCH] Add GeoGebra

[Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>]

Hi,


I have skimmed through the patch, the website of geogebra, and I have
noticed some problems.


+           ;; Move ".jar" files and license into "share/geogebra/".
It seems the jar files are copied into the installation directory.
This is no good because guix requires compiling everything from source
(except the bootstrap binaries). There is an ant-build-system in guix
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00207.html),
you may find it useful.


+    ;; Source code uses GPLv3+.  Other parts (e.g., translations) use
+    ;; a Non-Commercial clause.
This is hairy. I have looked at the website.

At the top of the website, it said
"You are free to copy, distribute and transmit GeoGebra for
non-commercial purposes (please see details below)."

But at the end of the website, it said
"Please note that GeoGebra as a complete software program would
probably not be considered "free" software according to the definition
of that term which is used \
by the Free Software Foundation. This is because the restrictions on
commercial use that apply to the GeoGebra installers, web services and
language files add-ons m\
ight be seen to be a restriction on the software as a whole (thus
making it "non-free"), even though the GeoGebra source code is made
available under the GNU General Public License without restriction.
You can rest assured that our license terms fully respect \
all existing licenses from third parties (including the GNU General
Public License and all Creative Commons variants) and have been
checked by an experienced \
law firm."

I guess this means the source is free-sw, but not the binaries and
translation, so we would have add a build phase to delete those
non-free parts. How do the other think about the license?


Thanks,
Alex


On 30/05/2016, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following patch adds GeoGebra. Please consider adding it to the
> repository.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738
>