{"id":609,"date":"2009-08-14T21:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T04:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-08-16T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T21:24:21","slug":"looking-to-get-iron-and-the-dlr-into-redhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Looking to get Iron* and the DLR into RedHat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sent an email<\/a> to the Fedora Legal list asking whether they will accept software released under the MS-PL<\/a> license. My friend<\/a> and former colleague, Brett Lentz<\/a> mentioned that he was concerned that the Fedora folks might not accept software released under the MS-PL. So I asked. I also bcc’d a certain troll on said mail so as to get lots of flame mail. I’m practicing to become a master twitterbaiter.<\/p>\n


\n14:43 < cj> wakko666: so… we are building ironruby\/ironpython debian packages over on OFTC\/#debian-cli
\n14:43 < wakko666> k
\n14:43 < cj> meebey just packaged up mono 2.4.2.3 in .deb
\n14:44 < cj> with some backported patches required to get the DLR language engines running correctly
\n14:44 < wakko666> k
\n14:44 < cj> we’re using xbuild to perform the build, thanks to ankit’s recent patches.
\n14:44 < cj> alarm went off. need to address food.
\n14:44 < wakko666> i know that mono is already in Fedora.
\n14:45 < cj> great. any idea what version?
\n14:45 < wakko666> http:\/\/koji.fedoraproject.org\/koji\/packageinfo?packageID=30<\/a>
\n14:45 < cj> we’ll need 2.4.2.3 + some patches. This is pretty bleeding edge, but I expect the fedora packagers are as ‘on it’ as the debian folks
\n14:46 < wakko666> fedora tends to be a bit further ahead of the curve than the debian folks
\n14:46 < cj> we can supply them the patches required. they are also being merged into the 2.4 branch, so should be in the next official release
\n14:46 < wakko666> k.. shouldn’t be a problem.
\n14:47 < cj> here is the tarball we’re using to build the .deb
\n14:47 < cj> http:\/\/github.com\/mletterle\/ironruby\/tarball\/20090805+git.e6b28d27<\/a>
\n14:49 < cj> most of the stuff you’ll need as far as build commands go are in debian\/rules:
\n http:\/\/git.debian.org\/?p=pkg-cli-libs\/packages\/dlr-languages.git;a=tree;f=debian;h=8e4c0abc01ba2db27fe66d508317cef3b574fd3a;hb=f3c10b84cf5f12cb670d14232263ac81662ff714<\/a>
\n14:49 < cj> I’ve got to finish making lunch for kids ;)
\n14:49 < cj> back shortly.
\n14:55 < wakko666> cj: my main concern about packaging ironruby is licensing. Fedora will accept packages under the MS-Shared-Source license [ed: this is not at all true<\/a>.], but the MS-PL isn’t on their list of acceptable license. [ed: it is now<\/a>.]
\n14:58 < cj> wakko666: alrighty. jschementi<\/a> is the guy to talk with about licensing issues. He’ll be back some time soon, I’m sure
\n14:58 < wakko666> of course, i can always write the spec file and you guys can host your own rpms, but it would be nice to actually get it into Fedora proper.
\n14:59 < cj> also, MS-PL is dfsg compliant and OSL-approved. Is it a decision to deny MS-PL or that it just hasn’t been reviewed yet?
\n14:59 < wakko666> not sure. we’d need to ask on the fedora-legal-list<\/a> mailing list
\n14:59 < wakko666> http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses<\/a>
\n15:00 < cj> alright. at another time. it’s nap time for scarlet and zelda. ;)
\n15:01 < wakko666> sure thing. if you ping the fedora-legal list, let me know what they have to say.
\n19:49 < cj> wakko666: firestorm initiated.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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