Re: CeCILL-B version 1

[Yuchen Pei]

jahoti <jahoti@envs.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> some of the JavaScript used by Framadate
> (e.g. https://framadate.org/aqg259dth55iuhwm) appears to be 
> licensed
> under the CeCILL-B version 1 license. This is a recognized free
> license 
> (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CeCILL-B), yet
> not currently compatible with LibreJS.
>
> I can provide a patch if given advice on how to obtain suitable 
> magnet
> links.

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.

> Thanks,
>
> jahoti


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Yuchen

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