From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add GeoGebra Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 23:23:44 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87wpmcmtnj.fsf@saiph.selenimh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7P2i-0004iJ-5y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 11:23:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7P2g-0006Yw-M2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 11:23:48 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22d]:34295) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b7P2g-0006Yl-Ge for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 11:23:46 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id b65so273167287oia.1 for ; Mon, 30 May 2016 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wpmcmtnj.fsf@saiph.selenimh> 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: Nicolas Goaziou Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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 wrote: > Hello, > > The following patch adds GeoGebra. Please consider adding it to the > repository. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou 0x80A93738 >