[bug#64176] [PATCH v2] gnu: Add nscde

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/fvwm.scm (nscde): New variable

[...]

> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append
> +                    "https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/releases/download/";
> +                    version "/NsCDE-" version ".tar.gz"))

Upon closer inspection, I noticed an unexpected size distribution:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ du -s /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/*|sort -k1 -n
0       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/LICENSE
4       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/autogen.sh
4       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/Makefile.am
4       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/TODO
8       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/README.localization
8       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/README.md
16      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/INSTALL.md
20      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/configure.ac
24      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/patches
24      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/ReleaseNotes.txt
28      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/Makefile.in
32      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/bin
32      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/ChangeLog
36      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/COPYING
52      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/aclocal.m4
76      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/pkg
140     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/ac-aux
176     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/po
244     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/configure
328     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/NsCDE.png
496     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/src
556     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/nscde_tools
920     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/autom4te.cache
952     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/lib
5860    /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/doc
14016   /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg
48712   /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data
$ du -s /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/*|sort -k1 -n
4       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/Makefile.am
8       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/xsessions
16      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/Makefile.in
16      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/menus
84      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/applications
96      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/desktop-directories
13788   /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/xdg/icons
$ du -s /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/*|sort -k1 -n
4       /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/Makefile.am
16      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/help
20      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/Makefile.in
84      /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/fontsets
312     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/palettes
316     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/defaults
408     /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/fvwm
1092    /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/fallback
1672    /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/config_templates
4800    /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/integration
4968    /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/icons
14968   /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/photos
20048   /tmp/NsCDE-2.3/data/backdrops
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

That is, there’s roughly 1 MiB of code for more than 50 MiB of images.

Is GPLv3 really meant to apply to those images?  It might be the intent,
but that would be a dubious choice since it’s a software license.

So I think it would be worth checking with upstream the provenance and
licensing of all the artwork here.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.