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Re: [Chicken-users] On eggs and their licensing
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Mario Domenech Goulart |
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Re: [Chicken-users] On eggs and their licensing |
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Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:37:48 -0400 |
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Hi
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:34:59 +0200 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 04:55:53PM -0500, Jim Ursetto wrote:
>> As promised, attached is an example program. Evidently this was a
>> good idea, because we have claimed our first casualty: http-session
>> depends on sha1 which is GPL. Well, I assume that wasn't intentional,
>> anyway.
>
> Graaah! I hate this, using GPL for essential functionality like message
> digests. I already killed the GPL-tainted md5 code we had and replaced
> it with a common public domain implementation. It shouldn't be hard to
> find a similarly liberally licensed sha1 implementation. If nobody
> beats me to it, I'll try to find some time for that in the weekend.
I don't know much about the licensing stuff, but if the eggs can have
their licenses changed, maybe the authors won't mind changing them upon
request.
>> You need an SVN checkout of the chicken repository to use this,
>> because most .meta information for eggs -- such as license and
>> dependencies -- is stripped out when installed.
>
> Cool, thanks for the example code! Mario: Perhaps something like this
> could be integrated in salmonella? I think license conflicts should
> be flagged as bugs. We could draw up a license table of what licenses
> conflict with what other licenses.
Yeah, maybe even an autonomous tool that can be called by salmonella.
Best wishes.
Mario
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