Re: [Barry-devel] linberry's source code

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

Hi Israel,

I've finally had time to take a look at the source code you've released
so far, for linberry beta2.  Unfortunately, it does not appear to contain
everything needed to build linberry completely from source.

I found some source code to bbtether (now known as Barry4All)
and I found Barry's source code included, which was merely renamed to
"linberry"... both the library name and the C++ namespaces were renamed,
but the code was mostly the same.

I found a 20MB linberry binary in the .deb release package, which does
not match the 17MB linberry binary in the Source tarball.  It is unclear
how to rebuild that binary from the source tarball, since there are no
Makefiles included, except the ones copied from Barry.  Nor can I find
the source files to that large binary.

I found a libtar.so library under the patch directory, but there is no
source code included to show what was patched.

In fact, there are a lot of .so files, but the source code to them appears
to be missing.  Some of these .so files are linked to Barry as well, which
is GPL.

I grabbed the Source tarball from the link on your website here:

	http://linberry.webcindario.com/pages/descargar.html

which gave me the download link here:

	http://www.mediafire.com/?7411qssiabhjbvc

If there is another source tarball available which includes the complete
sources for linberry, I would be happy to know about it.

Sadly, the Source tarball currently released (at least the one I could
find) is not satisfactory to meet GPL requirements.  The supporting
linberry libraries are still linked to Barry source code, even if it
was just renamed to "linberry".

It is unfortunate that Barry could not be used here in the way it was
intended: as a supporting library for further open source applications
which interface with the BlackBerry.  Instead, a lot of duplication
has been done, unnecessarily.  It is unnecessary to hide the fact that
Barry was used to build linberry, by renaming it; and it adds to your
own maintenance burden, having to maintain your own copy of Barry as well.
It benefits neither Barry nor linberry to have such a duplication of effort.

It appears you have the beginnings of a really nice open source project,
and it would be to the benefit of your own users to release the linberry
sources as required by the GPL.

In the hope of a mutually beneficial resolution, I look forward to the
release of the complete linberry sources.

Sincerely,
- Chris



On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:56:15PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> Hi Israel,
> 
> That's great news.  I look forward to seeing the source code soon.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Chris
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:42:07AM -0430, Israel Marrero wrote:
> > Dear Chris
> > 
> > In the next 48 hours (+/-) the beta2 of linberry will be released, At 
> > the same time the source code will be releasing on the website
> > 
> > Thanks and regards
> > 
> > Israel
> > 
> > 
> > El 23/04/12 17:15, Chris Frey escribi?:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I am the project lead of the Barry project and I was told about your
> > >project linberry yesterday.
> > >
> > >As far as I can tell, your project webpage is at:
> > >
> > >	http://linberry.webcindario.com/pages/acercade.html
> > >
> > >I took a look at the beta1 deb, but I am unable to find the source code
> > >to linberry, and I would be interested in seeing it, since it is linked
> > >against the Barry library, which is released under the GPL license.
> > >
> > >Barry is purposely written as a library, so I am glad that it is
> > >actually being used that way.  But it is intentionally released under
> > >the GPL, not the LGPL, so that programs built with it must also release
> > >their source code.
> > >
> > >Is the source code available on the web, and I just missed it?  If I missed
> > >it, please direct me to the right page.
> > >
> > >If you don't have the source code available on the web, that's fine.
> > >You can email it to me directly instead.
> > >
> > >You can find more information about GPL source release requirements here:
> > >
> > >	http://gpl-violations.org/faq/sourcecode-faq.html
> > >
> > >I look forward to hearing from you.  It would be great if our projects
> > >could work together, and I'm always looking for feedback on the Barry
> > >API, in order to improve it.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >- Chris
> > >
> > >
> > >