Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Luke English
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:21:28AM +0100, mpan wrote: > > >>> It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes > >>> them special that they cannot be added? > >> Because there is no MIT or 1/2/3-clause BSD license. There are > >> hundreds of independent, barely related

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread mpan
>>> It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes >>> them special that they cannot be added? >> Because there is no MIT or 1/2/3-clause BSD license. There are >> hundreds of independent, barely related licenses that are quite similar >> and, therefore, are considere

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 00:24:14 +0100 mpan wrote: > > It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes > > them special that they cannot be added? > Because there is no MIT or 1/2/3-clause BSD license. There are > hundreds of independent, barely related licenses that are q

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread mpan
> It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them > special that they cannot be added? Because there is no MIT or 1/2/3-clause BSD license. There are hundreds of independent, barely related licenses that are quite similar and, therefore, are considered together as a

Re: [arch-general] Hardware portal

2018-11-03 Thread mar77i via arch-general
Saturday, November 3, 2018 6:47 PM, Andrey Ponomarenko via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Good news for everyone interested in Linux-compatibility and reliability of > hardware! > > The Linux-Hardware.org database has been divided into a set of databases, one > per each Linux distro. You can now

Re: [arch-general] Hardware portal

2018-11-03 Thread pete via arch-general
On Sat, 03 Nov 2018 20:47:17 +0300 Andrey Ponomarenko via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Good news for everyone interested in Linux-compatibility and > reliability of hardware! > > The Linux-Hardware.org database has been divided into a set of > databases, one per each Linux distro. You can now

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread mar77i via arch-general
Saturday, November 3, 2018 7:53 PM, John Ramsden via arch-general dixit: > It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them > special that they cannot be added? Look at them: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT For one,

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Luke English
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 11:53:45AM -0700, John Ramsden via arch-general wrote: > It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them > special that they cannot be added? > I believe the reasoning for that is they include program-specific copyright information, so you can'

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added? -- John Ramsden On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : > > I'm in the

Re: [arch-general] Problems Building Nuvolaplayer-git

2018-11-03 Thread Celti Burroughs via arch-general
On Saturday, November 3, 2018 10:57:53 AM MST, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general wrote: Hello, [snip] Does anyone who has had experience with Nuvola know of the solution to this problem? Is there a package missing that didn't get added to the dependencies? The issue is an old version of waf tha

[arch-general] Problems Building Nuvolaplayer-git

2018-11-03 Thread Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general
Hello, I am having the following problem in building the nuvolaplayer-git package. :: Checking for conflicts... :: Checking for inner conflicts... [Aur: 1] nuvolaplayer-git-r1020.78b0333-1 1 nuvolaplayer-git (Build Files Exist) ==> Packages to cleanBuild? ==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]

[arch-general] Hardware portal

2018-11-03 Thread Andrey Ponomarenko via arch-general
Hi, Good news for everyone interested in Linux-compatibility and reliability of hardware! The Linux-Hardware.org database has been divided into a set of databases, one per each Linux distro. You can now select your favorite distro on the front page: https://linux-hardware.org/?d=Arch In this

Re: [arch-general] Static Lib Build for SDL2

2018-11-03 Thread Jayesh Badwaik via arch-general
Hmm, sorry for the noise. You can safely ignore the mail. The problem was caused by incompatible configuration in other operating systems, not ArchLinux. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Static Lib Build for SDL2

2018-11-03 Thread Jayesh Badwaik via arch-general
Fixed the link: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/sdl2#n50 -- Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[arch-general] Static Lib Build for SDL2

2018-11-03 Thread Jayesh Badwaik via arch-general
Hi, As I currently notice here (line 32) https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD? h=packages/sdl2#n31 The SDL2 library is not build with a static component. This is useful for a lot of development and hence, it would be nice if it is build with static component. Als

Re: [arch-general] Problem install shrew vpn client

2018-11-03 Thread Maykel Franco via arch-general
El sáb., 3 nov. 2018 0:34, Joan Figueras via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> escribió: > On 26/9/18 10:47, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: > > Hi, I received this error when compile the program shrew vpn client: > > > > yaourt -S shrew-vpn-client > > > > > /tmp/yaourt-tmp-maykel/a

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Hi, Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : > I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed > that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not > available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly > popul

[arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general
cGee pkgname=licenses -pkgver=20171006 +pkgver=20181103 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='Standard licenses distribution package' arch=('any') @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ ZopePublicLicense.txt mpl-1.1.txt::https://www.mozilla.org/media/MPL/1.1/index.txt mpl-2.0.txt::ht