Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add slurm-llnl.

[Pjotr Prins]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:33:30PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:36:48 +0100
> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > * gnu/packages/parallel.scm (slurm-llnl): New variable.
> > ---
> >  gnu/packages/parallel.scm | 51 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> [...]
> > +   (license license:openssl)))
> 
> There are several bits in the 'contribs' directory that seem to not be
> under free licenses. E.g.
> 
> - contribs/cray/slurmconfgen_smw.py contains "Copyright 2015 Cray Inc.
>   All Rights Reserved"
> 
> - contribs/cray/slurmconfgen.py.in contains "Copyright 2013 Cray Inc.
>   All Rights Reserved"
> 
> - contribs/cray/libalps_test_programs.tar.gz contains a mixture of
>   GPLv2, public domain, and binaries.
> 
> - contribs/mic/mpirun-mic declares no license.
> 
> - contribs/pmi2 is under a custom (copyleft?) license.
> 
> - contribs/sgather declares no license.
> 
> - contribs/sgi/netloc_to_topology.c contains "Copyright (C) 2014
>   Silicon Graphics International Corp. All rights reserved."
> 
> - contribs/sjobexit/sjobexitmod.pl declares no license.
> 
> I don't think we can claim any of these are covered under the same
> license as slurm, since the COPYING file explicitely says "Some tools
> in the "contribs" directory have other licenses."
> 
> The contribs tools are not installed by default, but we do need to
> remove any non-free source from there with an origin snippet.
> 
> Also, I found the DISCLAIMER file contains the "or (at your option) any
> later version." verbiage, so the slurm license itself is license:gpl2+

That was hard to find. Initially I had gpl2+ but they don't include the
license in the source so I defaulted to the license they include which
is openssl. But ja...

I agree the rest is a mess but we aren't building contrib. Do you have
an example of a package that does this the right way?

Pj.
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