Re: CeCILL-B version 1

[jahoti]

On 10/21/21 11:34 AM, Yuchen Pei wrote:
> Following the example on 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-librejs/2016-04/msg00008.html>, 
> I managed to generate a magnet link:
>
> wget https://cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-B_V1-en.txt -O cecillb.txt
> transmission-create cecillb.txt -o cecillb.txt.torrent
> transmission-show -m cecillb.txt.torrent
>
> and I get
>
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d3df60c220a1e764687d536e58d6b1bcb7fec8af&dn=cecillb.txt
>
> I'm not familiar with bit torrent enough to know whether the bith is 
> reproducible on a different machine.
>
> More broadly why are magnet links used?  I can see it provides both a 
> hash and a way to get the license, but I also notice reports in the 
> mailing list about these links not having seeders. So if it is just for 
> hashing, maybe a hash of the license file is sufficient.

Thank you for digging up that e-mail (and generating the magnet link)!

That said, your idea of just using a hash seems much simpler and more 
durable. Instead of a single patch, I might see if it's possible to 
submit a suite of minor adjustments like that to LibreJS.

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