[bug#57133] [PATCH] gnu: Add rizin.

[Maxime Devos]

On 15-08-2022 03:34, 宋文武 wrote:

> > What's the license for those binaries? I doubt all of them are gpl3+.
> >
> > I'm seeing a copy of libstdc++.so.6 in there. IIRC, it has a license
> > of the GPL family, which requires providing the source, so we need the
> > source code of it as well because of the licensing terms (the source
> > code of that particular variant of libstdc++, which might differ from
> > the version currently in Guix). Likewise for the other binaries.
> >
> > Personally, I think it would be more practical to ignore
> > rizin-testbins, even if that requires skipping some of the tests
> > (hopefully not all of them).
> >       
> I think those binaries as data, not programs to be run.  Well, most of
> them don't have sources in the repository, so I'll remove it and skip
> the integration tests.
>

This 'data' is still under various different licenses, some of which require providing source code. Copyright law not only covers programs to be run.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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