Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

From: Alessandro Pistocchi <apukfreelance_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:21:58 +0100

Thanks :-)

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> On 13 Nov 2018, at 00:11, Michael Forney <mforney_AT_mforney.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-11-12, Alessandro Pistocchi <apukfreelance_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> What is swc?
>
> My wayland compositor library: https://github.com/michaelforney/swc
>
>> Where can I find oasis? Would you be interested in helping a bit if I needed
>> help starting from oasis and removing gpl/lgpl stuff? I am ok with gpl apps
>> but not with libs...
>
> https://github.com/michaelforney/oasis
>
> I won't be removing GPL/LGPL packages just because of the license, but
> you don't have to install them if you don't want them. You can also
> just comment out what you don't want in pkg/gen.lua to make sure they
> don't get pulled in by something. The core set of packages (required
> for bootstrap and basic system operation) doesn't use any GPL/LGPL
> libraries, but does include some GPL applications (bc, e2fsprogs, git,
> iproute2, kbd, util-linux) and plan9port (Lucent Public License 1.02).
>
> Going through the package list, the libraries will likely have
> problems with are:
> - libelf from elfutils (LGPLv3), required to build linux
> - efivar (LGPLv2.1), required by efibootmgr (GPLv2)
> - libfuse (LGPLv2.1), required by sshfs (GPLv2)
> - libnl (LGPLv2.1), required by wpa_supplicant (BSD-3, but libnl is
> linked statically, so also LGPLv2.1)
> - jbig2dec (AGPLv3), required by mupdf (AGPLv3)
> - ffmpeg (LGPLv2.1 or GPLv2, depending on what's enabled), required by
> mpv (also GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 depending on what's enabled).
> - alsa-lib (LGPLv2.1), required by alsa-utils (GPLv2) and mpv
>
> (licenses were determined by looking briefly at https://repology.org/)
>
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