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[PATCH] gnu: Add kismet.

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Message #14 received at 55827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: phodina <phodina <at> protonmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 55827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#55827] [PATCH v2] gnu: Add kismet.
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:57:02 +0000

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Hi Maxime,


sorry about the mirror, it's fixed in the patch.

> phodina via Guix-patches via schreef op di 07-06-2022 om 07:41 [+0000]:
>
> > + (inputs (list openssl libpcap libusb protobuf protobuf-c
> > libwebsockets sqlite zlib))
>
> [...]
>
> > +    (license license:gpl2+)))
>
>
> libwebsockets is lgpl2.1 according to the package definition.
> Its dependency openssl is asl2.0. According to the FSF, asl2.0 and
> gpl2.0 are incompatible. So possibly asl2.0 and lgpl2.1 are
> incompatible (though I haven't seen any reliable claim for
> compatibility or incompatibility for _l_gpl, maybe it is compatible)
> and hence libwebsockets needs to be removed from kismet and Guix.
>
> However, according to v4.0.0 in the changelog, it is Expat (‘MIT’)
> licensed, so maybe all that's needed is correcting the license
> information?
>
> Greetings,
> Maxime.

Well regarding the license. They have the following statement:

** UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED IN THE FILE OR DIRECTORY, KISMET
   IS RELEASED UNDER THE GPL2 LICENSE

   SPECIFIC SUBCOMPONENTS AND FILES MAY BE UNDER LESS RESTRICTIVE
   LICENSES.  THESE DIFFERENCES ARE NOTED IN THE FILE OR IN THE
   LICENSE FILE OF THOSE SUBDIRECTORIES **

I'm not a laywer so can't really say if they are compatible or not in this case. Therefore the websockets are now removed by configuration flag.

However, if I think the best approach would be to create issue/bring this issue to the developers of Kismet.

The unfortunate thing with the current patch is it does not build as the boost library has been unbundled and the include headers fixed. What's missing is to add boost in the AutoConf scripts.

I don't have that kind of experience. If you know about some project that uses boost that could serve as reference it would be most welcome.

----
Petr

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