Aaron,
As the previous maintainer who dropped support, thank you for
picking it up. I have moved on from being a Fedora user (NixOS
these days) and was no longer maintaining those packages nor the
apps that depend on it. I am, however, the pumpkin holder for the
Python and Perl bindings. If you want to submit a patch to us that
gets those working again I would be happy to include it upstream.
Any files under the cmake folder were contributed by me. Those
noting a license were taken from later CMake versions and would
match licenses there. The FindXZ file is my original contribution
and is under the GPLv2 like all other original SWORD code.
The gSOAP and Objective-C bindings should be safe to remove in
Fedora as there is no need for them there.
The win32 files would only affect the MinGW build of sword in
Fedora, which was not retired as it was unaffected by the Python
changes.
ftpparse is a constant thorn in our side whenever people become
hung up on the commercial clause. While not strictly necessary to
SWORD, as HTTP and HTTPS are supported if the library is built with
cURL support, it would be a huge loss of functionality for most
users. It probably is time to consider rewriting their functionality.
The Android jar file is also unnecessary for your packaging and you
can safely delete it. And the whole pqa folder for diatheke should
be tossed. Likely at the SVN level, as I'm sure we are not building
Palm binaries anymore.
Hope that helps.
--Greg
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 01:06 Aaron Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Good morning/evening, and thanks for your time.
Recently SWORD was removed from Fedora 39 because of a bug
relating to
the python bindings (it's still using distutils rather than
setuptools,
which needed to be fixed, but the maintainer didn't fix it in
time). I'm
attempting to get SWORD back into Fedora by fixing the issue, but
as the
package was already retired, I'm preparing to reintroduce it as
if it
were being added for the first time. For the sake of making
things go
smoothly, I did a full licensing audit on the SWORD source code to
ensure that all licenses were compliant with Fedora's
requirements.
Some of the results of this audit were less-than-ideal, so I
thought I
would share the results with you so that you can take any measures
you
deem appropriate. I'm in the process of resolving these issues in
Fedora.
* There are several files under sword-1.9.0/cmake that have
unclear
licenses (referring to "the BSD license" but without specifying
which
version, and telling the user to look at a file that doesn't exist
for
the license details). I *believe* these files are licensed under
BSD-3-Clause, as I found the original source for all but one of
them,
however I could not find the original source for
sword-1.9.0/cmake/FindXZ.cmake.
* The gSOAP bindings contain a file,
sword-1.9.0/bindings/gsoap/include/stdsoap.h, which has no license
and
an "All rights reserved" notice.
* The Objective-C bindings have a similar problem - the following
files
under sword-1.9.0/bindings/objc all have no license and an "All
rights
reserved" notice:
- ObjCSword.h
- src/Notifications.h (yes I realize this file consists
entirely of
comments but this is still worrying)
- src/SwordBibleBook.h
- src/SwordBibleBook.m
- src/SwordBibleChapter.h
- src/SwordBibleChapter.m
- src/SwordBibleTextEntry.h
- src/SwordBibleTextEntry.m
- src/SwordInstallSource.h
- src/SwordInstallManager.h
- src/SwordInstallManager.mm
- src/SwordInstallSource.mm
- src/SwordKey.h
- src/SwordKey.m
- src/SwordListKey.h
- src/SwordListKey.mm
- src/SwordLocaleManager.h
- src/SwordLocaleManager.mm
- src/SwordModuleIndex.h
- src/SwordModuleIndex.m
- src/SwordModuleTextEntry.h
- src/SwordModuleTextEntry.m
- src/SwordTreeEntry.h
- src/SwordTreeEntry.m
- src/SwordVerseKey.h
- src/SwordVerseKey.mm
- src/SwordVerseManager.h
- src/SwordVerseManager.m
- src/VerseEnumerator.h
- src/VerseEnumerator.m
- src/services/Configuration.h
- src/services/Configuration.m
- src/services/iOSConfiguration.h
- src/services/iOSConfiguration.m
- src/services/OSXConfiguration.h
- src/services/OSXConfiguration.m
- SWORD/SWORD/SWORD.h
- SWORD/SWORD/SWORD.m
- test/SwordListKeyTest.h
- test/SwordListKeyTest.m
- test/SwordModuleLongRunTest.h
- test/SwordModuleLongRunTest.mm
- test/SwordModuleTest.h
- test/SwordModuleTest.m
* Two files under sword-1.9.0/src/utilfuns/win32 are under
non-free
licenses - they prohibit the sale of media containing those
files for
anything greater than the cost of distribution.
* The files sword-1.9.0/include/ftpparse.h and
sword-1.9.0/src/utilfuns/ftpparse.c are under informal non-free
licenses
prohibiting commercial use unless the copyright owner is
informed of
what program uses the files. This code appears to be critical to
SWORD's
functionality (as FTP is used for module downloading), so I have
attempted to contact the author and ask that ftpparse be
relicensed to
0BSD (which should be compatible with the licenses in SWORD).
In addition to the above, I discovered some pre-built binary files
floating around:
-
sword-1.9.0/bindings/Android/SWORD/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
- sword-1.9.0/utilities/diatheke/pqa/Diatheke.pqa
While these aren't strictly a problem, they do have to be
removed in
Fedora. You might consider removing them from your SVN repo if
possible
and not too inconvenient.
I hope this message finds you all doing well! God bless, and
thanks for
all the work you've put into the SWORD Project!
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