Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 01-07-2022 om 14:57 [+0200]:
> Nitpick: it’s not that “the FSDG applies to Guix” but rather the Guix
> project chooses to follow the FSDG (info "(guix) Software Freedom").
OOps, I searched for 'FSDG' but not for 'free software distribution
guidelines' ...
Greetings,
Mark H Weaver skriver:
> Therefore, I think that in order to comply with the FSDG, we should use
> a snippet to remove any files covered by the CC BY-NC-ND license.
The test suite is shipped separately from the Poppler source code, and
contains many seemingly unauditable PDF files. I don't thin
Hi,
Mark's reply addresses everything that would worry me from an FSDG
perspective and more -- thanks Mark!
On 2022-07-01 15:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
It may also be that this qualifies as fair use (AIUI, we’re talking
about pages extracted from larger PDF files, right?).
...but from a cop
Am Dienstag, dem 28.06.2022 um 23:19 +0200 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> Hello Guix,
>
> I discovered a potential freedom issue with the Poppler test suite.
> [...]
> So the million dollar question ... are these files okay to use for
> Guix?
>
> In my (non-lawyer) opinion, I have faith that Poppler dev
Hi Ludovic and Marius,
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Marius Bakke skribis:
>
>> So the million dollar question ... are these files okay to use for Guix?
>>
>> In my (non-lawyer) opinion, I have faith that Poppler developers would
>> not distribute files that are not freely redistributable, and that
Hi!
Marius Bakke skribis:
> So the million dollar question ... are these files okay to use for Guix?
>
> In my (non-lawyer) opinion, I have faith that Poppler developers would
> not distribute files that are not freely redistributable, and that this
> counts as "non-functional data" per FSDG gui
Maxime Devos skribis:
> OTOH, the FSDG isn't mentioned anywhere in the manual, but ‘software in
> Guix is free’ is, so maybe the FSDG doesn't apply. Though in past
> discussions, the conclusion was that the FSDG applies to Guix, so maybe
> the exceptions to the freeness policy just are in lack o
Hi Marius,
On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 23:19, Marius Bakke wrote:
> I discovered a potential freedom issue with the Poppler test suite.
> Specifically it includes a file with the CC BY-NC-ND (non-commercial)
> license:
BY-NC-ND in short:
This license allows reusers to copy and distribute th
Marius Bakke schreef op di 28-06-2022 om 23:19 [+0200]:
> I discovered a potential freedom issue with the Poppler test suite.
> Specifically it includes a file with the CC BY-NC-ND (non-commercial)
> license:
Given that it what (some tests) are based on, this might count as
functional data and hen
Hello Guix,
I discovered a potential freedom issue with the Poppler test suite.
Specifically it includes a file with the CC BY-NC-ND (non-commercial)
license:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/test/-/commit/920c89f8f43bdfe8966c8e397e7f67f5302e9435
It turns out the repository is filled wi
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