Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/09/01/00:34:26
On 8/31/2011 9:43 PM, Luke Kendall wrote:
> I'm asking because I'm finding Cygwin packages that contain no license
> information, at least in the compiled form (e.g. gawk, libiconv2).
None of the "dll" packages contain license files; they are supposed to
only contain the dll itself. Usually the license files wind up in the
"main" package, or a "-doc" package.
However I think your BEST bet would be to do the following...get
setup.ini from $favorite_mirror. Every record beginning with
'@ package'
will have one or more 'source:' entries -- except for some _obsolete
packages, but we don't care about those because they will just be empty
tarballs, so no source necessary. Multiple '@ package' will refer to
the same 'source:'
With some judicious coding (*), you should be able to flip that around,
and create a database that represents the information the other way:
<some source entry>-<VER-N>
@ package <1>-<VER-N>
@ package <2>-<VER-N>
@ package <3>-<VER-N>
<some source entry>-<VER-M> [same "package", different version]
@ package <1>-<VER-M>
@ package <2>-<VER-M>
@ package <3>-<VER-M>
<another source entry>-<VER-P>
@ package <4>-<VER-P>
@ package <5>-<VER-P>
I doubt the license would often change between versions of the same
package, but it HAS been known to happen.
Now, you can find the <package>s for which you can't identify the
license, and either (a) find another package in the same "family" --
e.g. derived from the same source -- for which you DO know the license.
WIN!
If *all* of the "child" packages of a given source have an unknown
license, well -- then you can get the -src package itself and troll
around in it, or check freshmeat. Usually the -src packages are named
pretty simply:
<upstream name>-<upstream ver>-<cygwin release>-src.tar.*
Watch out for this: some packages have different licenses for different
pieces. The "libiconv" group of packages specifies that the *libraries*
are LGPL, but the *app* is GPL. This means:
libcharset1: LGPL
libiconv2: LGPL
libiconv: GPL
Also, gettext group is similar; some of the libs and apps are GPL, and
some of the apps and libs are LGPL. Fortunately, they are segregated in
the cygwin packages:
libasprintf0: LGPL
libintl8: LGPL
libgettextpo0: GPL
gettext: LGPL
gettext-devel GPL
Fortunately, that sort of structure is rare.
(*) Maybe borrow from genini, or upset?
--
Chuck
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