On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:14:48AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:08:21 -0500
Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Seems to me, that at least in part, Ralf disagrees with the assertion
> that a problem exists that is worth all this pain of solving.
I also still try to understand where the need for this change comes
from, see my other mail in this thread.
You mean the problem of mixing thousands of packages together of
varying licenses which may or may not be incompatible? I don't see
how you can possibly think this problem doesn't exist.
But didn't we had to deal with this problem on a per package basis
until now and will have to do so no matter what overly complex parsing
system will be installed?
Take for example madwifi, a "GPL2v += || BSDwhatever" licensed
software that should be compatible according to the parser with the
"GPL2v || syscalls exceptions" kernel ...
So you'll creating a mesh where elefants can slip through, and at the
end we'll only have added bureaucracy for the packagers with no added
value whatsoever - packages will have to be checked against their
build and runtime depdencies carefully llllike they had to until now.
You can't replace a legal review with a parser ...
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