Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:54:09PM -0700, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > > > > > I like this option better than sticking another file into the public > > > tree that no user will ever need. > > > > Instead, modifying the eclass metadata and adding two new keys, that > > users will never need is fine?

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 02 September 2006 00:01, Alec Warner wrote: > and the tinderbox[1.5] > > [1.5] http://tinderbox.x86.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/app-cdr/ fixed -mike pgpaAQeW2iVd6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel Ostrow
> > I like this option better than sticking another file into the public > > tree that no user will ever need. > > Instead, modifying the eclass metadata and adding two new keys, that > users will never need is fine? :) > > This isn't really user data, tiz developer data; thus the user bit >

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Alec Warner
Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:13:51PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: >> Carsten Lohrke wrote: >>> Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed >>> cdrtools-2.01.01 >>> alpha ebuilds from the tree. >> I completely agree. In fact, Fedora Development also had to revert thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 01:37:26AM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Freitag, 1. September 2006 19:37 schrieb Brian Harring: > > > > > > > > old new > > > > - -- > > > > foo.eclass new-foo.eclass > > > > > > We don't need a new file for that

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 1. September 2006 19:37 schrieb Brian Harring: > > > > > > old new > > > - -- > > > foo.eclassnew-foo.eclass > > > > We don't need a new file for that IMHO. I'd propose to add > > something like > > > > ECLASS_DEPRECATED=

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Gordon
Greg KH wrote: >> I completely agree. In fact, Fedora Development also had to revert this >> change >> due to the same licensing issues a couple of weeks ago. (See the thread >> spawned >> from the 20060817 rawhide report [1].) > > No, they had to do this because they are distributing a built bi

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:13:51PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed > > cdrtools-2.01.01 > > alpha ebuilds from the tree. > > I completely agree. In fact, Fedora Development also had to revert this change > due t

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Gordon
Carsten Lohrke wrote: > Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed > cdrtools-2.01.01 > alpha ebuilds from the tree. I completely agree. In fact, Fedora Development also had to revert this change due to the same licensing issues a couple of weeks ago. (See the thread spawned f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of s ome USE flags

2006-09-01 Thread arfrever
Carsten Lohrke wrote [2006-08-31 15:16:31]: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:58, Simon Stelling wrote: >> About the udev, there's one package that doesn't share the effect: >> >> sys-apps/pcmciautils:udev - Install as an udev helper instead of a >> hotplug helper >> >> Which is different from the ot

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Alec Warner
Chris White wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 14:47, Jakub Moc wrote: >> Yeah, that's the previous fork that's been package.masked recently >> (homepage returns nifty internal server error now, we sure can expect a >> rapid development there). > > Hey ruby's had their entire server down for 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Chris White
On Friday 01 September 2006 14:47, Jakub Moc wrote: > Yeah, that's the previous fork that's been package.masked recently > (homepage returns nifty internal server error now, we sure can expect a > rapid development there). Hey ruby's had their entire server down for 2 days! We sure can expect ra

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 39 compliance

2006-09-01 Thread Ryan Hill
Wernfried Haas wrote: As far i am concerned, i find seperate sections quite good as it's a clear solution as it's easy to see who is an official Gentoo monkey who did all the quiz stuff etc. May be subject to personal taste though. Some of the unofficial monkeys have also done the quiz stuff e

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris White wrote: > Heck, dvdrtools is GPL, > you could use that. As long as we have an alternative to point users to, > good. THAT'S what I'm trying to say. Yeah, that's the previous fork that's been package.masked recently (homepage returns nifty internal server error now, we sure can expec

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Chris White
On Friday 01 September 2006 13:43, Mike Frysinger wrote: > if you werent implying "remove the package" when you said "not give a user > the option", then what else could you possibly be talking about > -mike Working on an the presented alternative, debburn, like I've been saying in pretty much al

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 01 September 2006 16:28, Chris White wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 13:20, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > set the LICENSE variable and/or add an ewarn to the ebuild ... pushing > > your ideals by removing the package is wrong > > -mike > > Ok, where the hell did I even say to remove it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Olivier Crete
On Fri, 2006-01-09 at 16:20 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 15:18, Chris White wrote: > > On Friday 01 September 2006 11:26, Greg KH wrote: > > > No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release > > > and live cds. We do not have to do anything with

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Chris White
On Friday 01 September 2006 13:20, Mike Frysinger wrote: > set the LICENSE variable and/or add an ewarn to the ebuild ... pushing your > ideals by removing the package is wrong > -mike Ok, where the hell did I even say to remove it. People that are saying that just need to stop, wtf. I'd rather

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:18, Chris White wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 11:26, Greg KH wrote: > > No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release > > and live cds. We do not have to do anything with the package in > > portage, as it is the user who builds cdrtool

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 01 September 2006 14:26, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > As discussed here?, the author of cdrtools, J?rg Schilling, violates the > > GPL in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed > > makefiles as well as linking m

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris White wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 12:46, Jakub Moc wrote: >> WTH is debburn??? Geeez, make the folk respect GPL like everyone else, I >> don't want any debburn. Besides, we don't distribute any binaries (if we >> do on release media, we'll have to stop until JS regains a bit of menta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 17:08 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:51:07AM +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the > > 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > > irc.freenode.net) ! > Is th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2006-09-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:51:07AM +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the > 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! Is this the new council for which the voting should have just ended, or th

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Chris White
On Friday 01 September 2006 12:46, Jakub Moc wrote: > WTH is debburn??? Geeez, make the folk respect GPL like everyone else, I > don't want any debburn. Besides, we don't distribute any binaries (if we > do on release media, we'll have to stop until JS regains a bit of mental > sanity). What are t

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Jakub Moc
Chris White wrote: > We have an alternative stated [1]. I think we need to focus more on the > problems of using the alternative, then dealing with what some consider to be > a rather sketchy legal dispute. > > [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debburn WTH is debburn??? Geeez, make the folk respe

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Chris White
On Friday 01 September 2006 11:26, Greg KH wrote: > No, we should just stop distributing the prebuild image in our release > and live cds. We do not have to do anything with the package in > portage, as it is the user who builds cdrtools that does the violating > (and only if they then redistribut

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > As discussed here?, the author of cdrtools, J?rg Schilling, violates the GPL > in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed makefiles as > well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to CDDL lately. De

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:57:22PM +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Freitag, 1. September 2006 17:05 schrieb Alec Warner: > > Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Repoman needs to check for deprecated eclasses, see > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/141677 > > > > > > As a result of the discussi

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Alec Warner
Carsten Lohrke wrote: > The file listing the derecated overlays is fine. What about revdep-rebuild > and > emerge regarding installed stuff and overlays? > > > Carsten We are talking eclasses...not overlays... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Danny van Dyk
Am Freitag, 1. September 2006 17:05 schrieb Alec Warner: > Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Repoman needs to check for deprecated eclasses, see > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/141677 > > > > As a result of the discussion in the bug, we would like to add > > $PORTDIR/qa-data/eclass.deprecated > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Carsten Lohrke wrote: > What about revdep-rebuild and > emerge regarding installed stuff and overlays? what do you mean? Please elaborate I have only repoman in mind for now. - Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:45, Luis Medinas wrote: > I'm sure that situation will be fixed by the upstream (Jörg) since it > violates GPL license. About the debian fork we will take a look at it > and see where's going. Read the Debian bug. Jörg Schilling is badmouthing Debian developers and t

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 01 September 2006 16:42, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Actually the GPL specifically states that build scripts are part of the > source code explicitly. And requires you to make it available, but it doesn't strictly require its license terms to be the same. Maybe I'm confused a bit, but for wh

[gentoo-dev] Bugday Reminder

2006-09-01 Thread Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone :-) Saturday (that would be tomorrow), it's bugday again, and we would like to see you in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net :-) We hope to see as many people as possible, and to get as many bugs as possible fixed :-) Bjarke AKA GurliGebis

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
The file listing the derecated overlays is fine. What about revdep-rebuild and emerge regarding installed stuff and overlays? Carsten pgpMpDspMcPVc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Alec Warner
Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Hi, > > Repoman needs to check for deprecated eclasses, see > http://bugs.gentoo.org/141677 > > As a result of the discussion in the bug, we would like to add > $PORTDIR/qa-data/eclass.deprecated > to allow to deprecate eclasses properly and make repoman fail. > > This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2006-09-01 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:45:04PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I would like to second this. I particularly find the notification 7 days > before setting the agenda troublesome. It basically means that decisions can > only be made half a month after the discussion has finished on -dev. As far

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2006-09-01 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:53, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I have a proposal for an agenda item. > > I would like the council to decide on the removal of the requirement > that everything must come as an agenda item so they can be allowed to > make decisions in a timely manner, if necessary. O

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 01 September 2006 16:31, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 15:36, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > The build scripts are part of the source code. And as such must be > > licensed under the GPL. > > It's opinable, as you don't mix them with the actual code. I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 16:31:51 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Friday 01 September 2006 15:36, Paul de Vrieze wrote: | > The build scripts are part of the source code. And as such must be | > licensed under the GPL. | | It's opinable, as you don't mix them with the ac

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:36, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > The build scripts are part of the source code. And as such must be licensed > under the GPL. It's opinable, as you don't mix them with the actual code. I think it's one of the gray points. Still it does not make any sense to ship the make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Luis Medinas
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 15:24 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Friday 01 September 2006 14:51, Lars Weiler wrote: > > We have a lot of other applications in the tree, which is > > not free. > > The problem is not that it's not free*, but that linking GPL and CDDL code > violates the GPL. If the wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2006-09-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 05:51 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the > 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ > irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on,

[gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Diego, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò schrieb: > On Friday 01 September 2006 02:00, Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote: >>  As Schily is not the only one who has contributed code to mkisofs he   >> can't change its license all on his own. > T

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:08, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I'm the first to not like Schilling's ways, but... > > On Friday 01 September 2006 14:44, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > building GPL software with CDDL licensed > > makefiles > > Can't see how this is pertinent, I can build BSD licen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 01 September 2006 02:00, Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote: >  As Schily is not the only one who has contributed code to mkisofs he   > can't change its license all on his own. That's why I said I wasn't sure :) Still, if I remember correctly he gets the copyright assignment for cdrtool

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 01 September 2006 14:51, Lars Weiler wrote: > We have a lot of other applications in the tree, which is > not free. The problem is not that it's not free*, but that linking GPL and CDDL code violates the GPL. If the whole cdrtools code were CDDL, there were no problem. *The OSI consi

[gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Diego, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò schrieb: >> as well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to CDDL >> lately. > This is a bit more debatable, he *can* link it, if he can change mkisofs > license to allow linking to non-GPL-co

[gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer
Tach Lars, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Lars Weiler schrieb: > * Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/09/01 14:44 +0200]: >> Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed >> cdrtools-2.01.01 alpha ebuilds from the tree. > I don't think so. > We have a l

Re: [gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
I'm the first to not like Schilling's ways, but... On Friday 01 September 2006 14:44, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > building GPL software with CDDL licensed > makefiles Can't see how this is pertinent, I can build BSD licensed software with autoconf that is GPL, and use GCC to compile.. > as well as

[gentoo-dev] Re: cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Lars Weiler
* Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/09/01 14:44 +0200]: > Imho we have to remove the partly and incompatible relicensed > cdrtools-2.01.01 > alpha ebuilds from the tree. I don't think so. We have a lot of other applications in the tree, which is not free. The only problem I see is, that y

[gentoo-dev] cdrtools license issues

2006-09-01 Thread Carsten Lohrke
As discussed here¹, the author of cdrtools, Jörg Schilling, violates the GPL in his application, by building GPL software with CDDL licensed makefiles as well as linking mkisofs to libscg, which he relicensed to CDDL lately. Debian seems to fork² cdrtools therefore. Imho we have to remove the p

[gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses

2006-09-01 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Hi, Repoman needs to check for deprecated eclasses, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/141677 As a result of the discussion in the bug, we would like to add $PORTDIR/qa-data/eclass.deprecated to allow to deprecate eclasses properly and make repoman fail. This will allow us to avoid problems with new ebu

[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

2006-09-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday once a month), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo dev