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[PATCH] gnu: Add distrho-ports.

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From: Alexandros Theodotou <alex <at> zrythm.org>
To: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>, 42279 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#42279] [PATCH] gnu: Add distrho-ports.
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:24:01 +0100

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Hi,

Thanks for the review.

On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 00:07 +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> > +  Wolpertinger.")
> > +      (home-page "http://distrho.sourceforge.net/ports")
> > +      (license (list license:gpl2      ; found in doc directory
> > +                     license:lgpl3+    ; found in doc directory
> > +                     license:gpl3)))))  ; mentioned in meson file
> 
> This is a problem: GPL3 is famously incompatible with GPL2.  If these
> plugins are licensed separately it would be good to list the license
> for
> each and take it from there.
> 
> Even better (I think?) is to package each plugin separately.  Then
> users
> can choose whether to combine these incompatibly-licensed plugins,
> but
> we as a distribution can not (and probably not DISTRHO either).
> 
> Not sure what to do about it.  Ideas?

Why is it a problem? It's only a problem if you link them together
afaik. The plugins that this project produces are all separate
binaries, each under its own license.

I think we should just list the license for each included plugin. I'm a
bit against making separate packages - it would be a pain to maintain
and the plugins don't take up much disk space.

Thanks,
Alex

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