Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, May 21, 2021, 6:34 PM Daniel Berjón Díez wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 22:26, Manhong Dai wrote: > >> >> Further, as Daniel already pointed out, this case is just about API. >> > > I did no such thing, I merely pointed out that one of their arguments is > that the copy was not subs

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Daniel Berjón Díez via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 22:26, Manhong Dai wrote: > > Further, as Daniel already pointed out, this case is just about API. > I did no such thing, I merely pointed out that one of their arguments is that the copy was not substantial in volume, and it was a lot more than three lines for a patch; ac

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, May 21, 2021, 4:47 PM Паша wrote: > > > пт, 21 мая 2021 г., 23:40 Manhong Dai via aur-general < > aur-general@lists.archlinux.org>: > >> On Fri, May 21, 2021, 4:36 PM mar77i via aur-general < >> aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: >> >> > -‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ >> > On Frida

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Паша via aur-general
пт, 21 мая 2021 г., 23:40 Manhong Dai via aur-general < aur-general@lists.archlinux.org>: > On Fri, May 21, 2021, 4:36 PM mar77i via aur-general < > aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > -‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Friday, May 21, 2021 10:25 PM, Manhong Dai via aur-general < >

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, May 21, 2021, 4:36 PM mar77i via aur-general < aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > -‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, May 21, 2021 10:25 PM, Manhong Dai via aur-general < > aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > IMHO, as it is very tricky to distribute a patch file wi

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread mar77i via aur-general
-‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, May 21, 2021 10:25 PM, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: > IMHO, as it is very tricky to distribute a patch file without copyright, a > better solution for AUR maintainers is to creat patch files including the > upstream copyright and then host the fil

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, May 21, 2021, 2:30 PM Daniel Berjón Díez via aur-general < aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi ente, > > On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 19:11, ente via aur-general < > aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > In - broadly speaking - any other situation, you are copying. Copying > > i

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
"locally patch it in any way you like" I basically agree with everything you said, but the statement quoted above is tricky. As I said before, it really depends on how you patch it. If it is a diff patch file, which always uses the original code, then the upstream programmer does have a ground

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via aur-general
On 5/21/21 1:10 PM, ente via aur-general wrote: > On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 18:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: >> Hi Manhong, >> >> it's squishy to form an opinion related to violation of a >> license and toleration of sensible modifications and sometimes even to >> distinguish between th

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Daniel Berjón Díez via aur-general
Hi ente, On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 19:11, ente via aur-general < aur-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > In - broadly speaking - any other situation, you are copying. Copying > is protected by the copyright. GPL grants you rights under certain > conditions. If you don't fully comply with the restr

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 13:48:49 -0400, Manhong Dai wrote: >That being said, I always hope AUR can have as little conflicts like >this as possible, so I can continuously benefit from Arch Linux. In my experiences most of the AUR is without problems, a benefit for all of us. We are all humans and the

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 19:10:57 +0200, ente wrote: >Oh, sorry to say Ralf: in any scenario you should never again consider >to write a song! That song is horrible! :D While I have to agree that my analogy doesn't work perfectly, this part of the analogy does a good job. You and I probably agree, th

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 19:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2021 12:37:05 -0400, Manhong Dai wrote: > > I still think even 'sensible modifications' is still a modification, > > especially if the original author has an issue with it. > > Yesno ;)!  There are GPL vs BS

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 12:37:05 -0400, Manhong Dai wrote: >I still think even 'sensible modifications' is still a modification, >especially if the original author has an issue with it. Yesno ;)! There are GPL vs BSD license disputes for no good reasons. How Pooterish can we go? As long as the world

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 19:10 +0200, ente via aur-general wrote: > On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 18:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general > wrote: > > Hi Manhong, > > > > it's squishy to form an opinion related to violation of a > > license and toleration of sensible modifications and sometimes even > > to

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 09:50 -0700, Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > On 2021-05-21 11:54, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: > > I know I will be the minority in this list. However, this statement > > doesn't sound right to me if the patch file is applied to the > > original > > source code.

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread ente via aur-general
On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 18:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: > Hi Manhong, > > it's squishy to form an opinion related to violation of a > license and toleration of sensible modifications and sometimes even to > distinguish between theft and fortuitousness. > > If you wrote a song named

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Brett Cornwall via aur-general
On 2021-05-21 11:54, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: I know I will be the minority in this list. However, this statement doesn't sound right to me if the patch file is applied to the original source code. Unlike the file PKGBUILD, a patch file constitutes a modified source code because it doe

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 18:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: > Hi Manhong, > > it's squishy to form an opinion related to violation of a > license and toleration of sensible modifications and sometimes even > to > distinguish between theft and fortuitousness. > > If you wrote a song nam

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Hi Manhong, it's squishy to form an opinion related to violation of a license and toleration of sensible modifications and sometimes even to distinguish between theft and fortuitousness. If you wrote a song named "love song" composed of holding the note c for 1000 beats and after that holding the

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Manhong Dai via aur-general
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 15:05:21 -0500 > From: "David C. Rankin" > To: aur-general@lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 5/18/21 2:06 AM, Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > > On 2021-0