Hi,
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 at 21:19 +0100, Klaus Reimer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen that my DJB packages are already in CVS. That's great. And the
> compiled packages are also already available in the repository. This may
> not be so great. Haven't thought of that. DJB software has a very
> strange licensing. He allows distribution of binary packages only when
> installing the binary package does EXACTLY the same thing as when
> installing the packages manually by using the original source code. This
> is quite difficult. Especially because the original source is not
> compilable anyway because of the common errno problems with all somewhat
> modern linux dists... ;-)
>
> Debian does not provide binary DJB packages because of these license
> restrictions. They just provide installer packages.
>
> I see three solutions:
>
> 1. Ignore the problem... Not the most legal solution...
First I thought this might be a solution, but ...
> 2. Make sure the packages install EXACTLY as DJB wants it. This means
> installing the binaries in /command instead of /usr/bin. And this also
> means that we can't apply any patches to the source. If the errno patch,
> which is needed for successful compiling, is already violating the
> license is unclear but personally I think this is ok because it doesn't
> change the behavior of the programs. I don't like this solution at all
> and I'm pretty sure Thorsten (Who said he uses a heavily patched djbdns)
> don't like it either. But if it's decided that this solution is the best
> one then I could modify the Makefiles so the packages are compatible to
> DJB standards.
>
> 3. Exclude these packages from automatic inclusion in the binary
> repository on freewrt.org. This type of software can then only be
> installed by creating the packages with the build system or by compiling
> the packages directly into the freewrt image. This treatment is then
> comparable to the Debian-way and as a Debian developer I'm used to it
> and I prefer and recommend this solution.
This is the solution we will use.
bye
Waldemar
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