On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:59:37PM +0100, Cl??ment Lassieur wrote:
I had a look at the source of the recently commited "unrar" package, and
I could not find neither "copyright" lines nor pointers to the full
notice, except in unrarlib.h and unrarlib.c, which belong to a different
project. IANAL, but according to GPLv2 and
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html, those things are
mandatory, COPYING is not enough. So I think the "unrar" package
contains proprietary code.I think you are mistaken. Yes, the package does not explicitly have headers in the way that GNU recommends. But I do not see how such a recommendation is "mandatory". (It's mandatory for gnu programs, but there are many non-gnu programs in Guix) The placement of COPYING - whilst normally not all that we would like - is part performance of an intent to licence the software. Like you say, the authors have taken GPL code from another project and incorporated it into unrar - that is only possible if the the resultant work is GPL compatible. Also if you look at the site where it is hosted https://gna.org/projects/unrar you will see that it says: License: GNU General Public License V2 or later. So, whilst it has been poorly executed, I believe there is ample evidence that this program is licenced GPL. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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