packaging in science repo
Hi there, this is from a discussion on opensuse-packaging and Andreas suggested to get you in the loop too.
the issue is that both openmotif and alglib... they do not qualify for obs under the oss licence rule... though packages that are in common usage in science community need them...
so the question is how do we handle them? do we push them to non-oss? and then build science repos against non-oss
as these have non-commercial free source usage, do we add a pop-up licence to them telling users about?
I have no idea what is opensuse-bar...
Please send the above text to the the mailing list opensuse- bar@opensuse.org,
Andreas -- Without Questions there are no Answers!
Alin Marin ELENA Advanced Molecular Simulation Research Laboratory School of Physics, University College Dublin ---- Ardionsamblú Móilíneach Saotharlann Taighde Scoil na Fisice, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://alin.elenaworld.net ______________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-bar+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-bar+owner@opensuse.org
On Jul 04, 12 16:22:14 +0100, Alin M Elena wrote:
I have no idea what is opensuse-bar...
opensuse-bar is the place where our legal team can be met. Myself I am none, but I am interested in the technical aspects of implementing the advice given by legal.
Hi there,
the issue is that both openmotif and alglib... they do not qualify for obs under the oss licence rule... though packages that are in common usage in science community need them...
I see a need for trackig these packages as non-oss. Having a repo called non-oss is nice as a collection pool where all those packages end up, with devel projects and individual packages sitting in someone's home the non-oss status is currently not trackable. AJ: do you know if this is possible with package attributes? Ciaran, Christopher, Susanne: does that make sense?
as these have non-commercial free source usage, do we add a pop-up licence to them telling users about?
Depends on the exact license, I'd say. Only very few licenses would call for a license popup. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 say #263A!__/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, J.Guild, F.Imendoerffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg), Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. ☺ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-bar+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-bar+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/04/2012 05:42 PM, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Jul 04, 12 16:22:14 +0100, Alin M Elena wrote:
I have no idea what is opensuse-bar...
opensuse-bar is the place where our legal team can be met. Myself I am none, but I am interested in the technical aspects of implementing the advice given by legal.
Hi there,
the issue is that both openmotif and alglib... they do not qualify for obs under the oss licence rule... though packages that are in common usage in science community need them...
I see a need for trackig these packages as non-oss. Having a repo called non-oss is nice as a collection pool where all those packages end up, with devel projects and individual packages sitting in someone's home the non-oss status is currently not trackable.
AJ: do you know if this is possible with package attributes? Ciaran, Christopher, Susanne: does that make sense?
Better ask Coolo and Adrian.
as these have non-commercial free source usage, do we add a pop-up licence to them telling users about?
Depends on the exact license, I'd say. Only very few licenses would call for a license popup.
-- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-bar+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-bar+owner@opensuse.org
participants (3)
-
Alin M Elena -
Andreas Jaeger -
Juergen Weigert