[arch-haskell] Diligence on including 'riot' in AUR

Sat Oct 12 07:33:50 UTC 2013

Thanks Matt, yeah I looked over it too, and since  it appears to be
vanilla GPL2, we're good.

matt:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:09:25PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > Yeah, though riot is GPLd. 
> > 
> > Tuomo and I've worked on a couple of projects (riot, yi), but it's been a while.
> > 
> > Anyway, riot is in AUR,
> 
> We should probably handle this one extra carefully, so I took it upon
> myself to do some due diligence.
> 
> I'm not trying to revive the Tuomo bashing that went around the arch
> community when this happened last year. I do however feel that since
> he's made his feelings clear[1] on modified distributions, we need to
> protect our reputations by establishing that an effort was made to
> ensure we were complying with licensing restrictions. I don't know
> if cabalization (modifying the build system) concerns him.
> 
> The license in the version available[2] from his personal website
> appears (through a quick diff) to be insubstantially different from the
> FSF's edition of the GPL2. I have attached the content of the diff to
> this message, as you can see, the differences are entirely in format.
> 
> I think we're good to distribute this.
> 
> [1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2007-April/004634.html
> [2] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/riot/

> --- riot-1ds-20080618/LICENSE	2008-06-18 09:56:57.000000000 -0400
> +++ /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2	2006-06-15 16:01:00.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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>  
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>  
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
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> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
>  
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> -
> +
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>  
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
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> -
> +
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> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
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> -
> +
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> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
>  
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> +
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> @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
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> @@ -303,17 +303,16 @@
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> @@ -336,5 +335,5 @@
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