[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-06 05:42:09 +0000, Jean-François Piéronne said:

> Le 06/08/2020 à 01:08, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
>> 
>> Not necessarily. It depends on what open source license it is.
>> 
>> Whether it is a copyleft or a permissive license.
> 
> There are many libraries/tools with a license which required you to 
> publish the sources like GPL for examples, SAMBA is one of them as 
> mentioned by Craig.

Which is what the text you were citing (also) states.

Various commercial vendors can and do avoid copyleft licenses, 
preferring to work with other and more permissive licenses.

> I suggest you list all the VSI ports and give us how many doesn't 
> violate the associated license, and how many violate their license...

VSI doesn't tend to push fixes upstream nor did HPE/HP/Compaq/DEC tend 
to do that, and that proclivity has been fodder for previous 
discussions.

There have been efforts there, though. For one open-source package I 
was porting back at HP, I tried pushing the fixes upstream, and the 
fixes were then ignored by the upstream folks.

Having done a very quick check of the VSI Samba port, and recent Samba 
uses GPL3 of course, and by all appearances (IANAL) the folks at VSI do 
appear to be in compliance with the Samba GPL3 requirements.

Also noted that there's no PDC/BDC and no AD support in the Samba port, 
too. Ah, well.

I do expect to load Samba too, though that's centrally to allow access 
to software development tooling available else-platform, and that's all 
fodder for a different discussion or three.

VSI hasn't moved to the current LLVM, so there's not much reason to 
push LLVM changes upstream as yet, should the folks at VSI decide to 
push their changes upstream. But they're not required to push those 
changes with LLVM.

As for scanning all of VSI's open-source for license compliance, that's 
work I'm not interested in pursuing. That's for VSI and the VSI legal 
folks, and for anyone else that might choose to research that 
particular topic.


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