[Mono-dev] make install doesn't copy monodroid profile assemblies to the prefix directory

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

The RabbitMQ driver has no non-free bits itself, only it's build system
that uses one to generate apache licensed files.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Bell <bell.jeremy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rodrigo.
>
> If you would, could you clarify on the issue of the AMQP driver? Do you
> mean the RabbitMQ library? So this would affect System.Messaging.dll,
> Mono.Messaging.dll, Mono.Messaging.RabbitMQ.dll, and RabbitMQ.Client.dll,
> correct?
>
> I'm not familiar with this RabbitMQ project but it is listed as being dual
> licensed under The Apache License v2 and The Mozilla Public License,
> although it has commercial support options. The Apache license should allow
> for modifications to the original library (and thus indirectly any
> generated code) and also distribution in binary form without the end-user
> reverse engineering requirement of the LGPL. As for the other DLLs - the
> source for those are all under mono/mcs/class, which lists the MIT license
> at the root of that directory, so in theory these should be free to
> distribute. Am I missing some dependency in the driver or the above DLLs?
>
>
> Thanks again,
> Jeremy
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The runtime is a mixture of LGPL and MIT and the BCL is mixture of
>> MIT/X11 and compatible licenses such as the Microsoft variant of MIT.
>>
>> As the Debian guys found out there are some non-free files used to
>> generate some files, but the byproduct is fine. This is for the AMQP
>> driver, I believe. They are non-free because they cannot be changed even if
>> they can be distributed freely.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jeremy Bell <bell.jeremy at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Rodrigo. Copying sounds like the way to go.
>>>
>>>
>>> As an aside, this is for an open source project and the intent is to use
>>> the core mono runtime under the terms of the LGPL as stated in the
>>> licensing documentation. If there is any code in the mono repository that
>>> isn't dual licensed (in other words, commercial only, with no option for
>>> LGPL use), that needs to be made explicitly clear, as currently there is no
>>> mention of such in the licensing doc.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are no install target as those assemblies are not consumed in a
>>>> standard way, it's very useful to have them on either the GAC or a profile
>>>> directory.
>>>>
>>>> What we do at Xamarin is to have them consumed as part of our product
>>>> build, mostly due to historical reasons.
>>>>
>>>> If you're using Xamarin.Android beta and have a paid license[1], you
>>>> can copy them over. Yes, it's brittle, I'm sorry for that.
>>>>
>>>> But it's something that should be fixed on the build system.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rodrigo
>>>>
>>>> [1]Starter edition doesn't allow random assemblies be used for the BCL.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jeremy Bell <bell.jeremy at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, is there a separate install target that does install them? It's
>>>>> easy enough to copy the directory in a build script after make install, but
>>>>> that's a little brittle. Better that the build system handle that, I think.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, it's not copied because those assemblies are not very useful on
>>>>>> the desktop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Jeremy Bell <bell.jeremy at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I build the monodroid assemblies with the configure option
>>>>>>> --with-monodroid=yes, the profile is built correctly in the master branch,
>>>>>>> but when you make install, the monodroid profile assemblies are not copied
>>>>>>> to the install prefix directory with the other profiles. Is this expected
>>>>>>> behavior?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is my config options:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ./autogen.sh --with-glib=embedded --prefix=$INSTALL_PREFIX --with-monodroid=yes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> make && make install
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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