Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Virex ships/overwrites fink libraries

[John Buell]

Kyle's prior post was right. The RTF files mention curl, but no other open source projects.

So to be fair, there really should be mention of OpenSSL and dlcompat, and possibly also fink, since it was pretty obvious where they got some of these libraries.

Also, and not to be nasty, but since this is now a "known issue" and a number of sites have been alerted for not mixing fink with Virex 7.2, should we move further discussion off list?

-John

On Saturday, Feb 8, 2003, at 11:00 America/Chicago, David R. Morrison wrote:

David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Samstag, Februar 8, 2003, at 04:18  Uhr, Kyle Moffett wrote:

There are two major problems with this:
1) Licensing violations.

This seems to be a rather iffy case of license violation. I will have
to check back with the lawyers on Monday. There are several approaches
to fixing this. It now dependson you Max, drm and RR how this should be
handled. Fell free to "abuse" our legal department.

My understanding from one of the forums in which this has been discussed is
that Virex comes with a ReadMe file which discusses the licenses. That is
perfectly adequate for most open source licenses, and in any event, it's
not our business to enforce the licenses of the software packages we happen
to distribute. (If they seem to be violating the license, the violation
can be reported to the author of the package.)

In addition, they used Fink packaged software without telling the Fink
Developers about it or placing a notice in the software!

Which is annoying and should be told to them.

Actually, I have no problem with them using the software without
acknowledging it. What *is* a problem is that they installed things directly
into /sw, which interferes with the operation of Fink.

We need a web page somewhere on the Fink site which explains why this is a
problem, and gives some suggestions (like in Ben Hines' posts on the McAfee
Virex forum) about what a software developer should do if she or he wants
to re-use Fink stuff (in order to avoid interfering with Fink).

-- Dave

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