[haiku-development] Re: Crediting 3rd-party software in AboutSystem
- From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 07:48:47 +1300
On 6 January 2015 at 07:27, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:20:39AM -0800, scottmc wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On 1/5/2015 12:56 PM, Adrien Destugues wrote:
>> >
>> >> These fonts are included (as packages) in the default image, however
>> >> they are (currently) not dependencies of the Haiku package. Should we
>> >> add credits to Haiku's AboutSystem for all packages bundled in the
>> >> default image, or only for dependencies of the Haiku package? or only
>> >> for things that are included in the Haiku package itself (in that case
>> >> we should remove Freetype and a few others from this list)?
>> >>
>> >> How do we credit things that are not in AboutSystem? Is the copyright
>> >> metadata on packages enough?
>> >>
>> > This was already brought up before in my AboutSystem patch [1]. The
>> > concensus was to leave all the things that were dependencies of the Haiku
>> > package, and remove the ones that weren't dependencies (even if they were
>> > installed by default), IIRC.
>> >
>> > -Augustin
>> > [1]: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11015
>> >
>> >
>> https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1222 (<==wow was that really 7 years ago?)
>>
>> The AboutSystem should just be listing a single copyright notice for each
>> package that ends up installed on the final system, whichever one that is.
>> So for anything that is now outsourced, those "should" get pulled in when
>> their packages as installed correct? If so then those should be able to be
>> removed from being hardcoded into AboutSystem.cpp, if/when all the
>> oursourceable packages are outsourced there should be little or no third
>> party copyright notices left in that section correct?
>>
>> Perhaps try auditing a built Haiku checking the AboutSystem and look for
>> any that show up twice, then fix those.
>
> None of the package licenses are shown in AboutSystem currently. I don't
> think we want that, anyway: the fact that a package is installed
> doesn't mean it is part of the system. We already include the licenses
> and copyright information for all packages as package metadata and the
> files in system/data/licenses. This is enough to comply with the
> licenses, I think.
>
> However, for things that are outsourced but still dependencies of the Haiku
> package, I think it makes sense to have credits in AboutSystem. This
> include things like ffmpeg and freetype, for example, but doesn't
> include WebKit, Wonderbrush, or the DejaVu fonts.
DejaVu fonts, this probably should be a dependency of the Haiku
package, as it is fairly core to the standard look and feel of Haiku.
WebKit, is this also not a dependency, as we include an API that wraps WebKit?
3rd party applications shouldn't be included, as it is their
responsibility to list their licenses.
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