Bug 146019 – sci-libs/vtk - add gl2ps support

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Colin Macdonald 2006-09-02 11:30:40 UTC]

I'd like to see gl2ps support added to VTK.  This would enable a feature in mayavi (bug #50464) and also allow vtk users to generate postscript, pdf, svg output.

I will attach a patch for the ebuild.

The only concern I have with this is that gl2ps, although distributed with the vtk sources, is under a different license.  VTK is BSD and gl2ps seems to be either LGPL-2 or GL2PS.  So I suppose the license in the VTK ebuild would have to change to LICENSE="BSD LGPL-2".  Is that a problem?  I could add a local use flag and when vtk is built with -gl2ps it would be BSD licenses...?

[Comment 1 Colin Macdonald 2006-09-02 12:10:51 UTC]

Created attachment 95767 [details, diff]
gl2pspatch.diff

[Comment 2 Jonathan Stickel 2007-07-30 14:59:02 UTC]

It looks like the gl2ps flag has been enabled in the 5.0.3 version ebuild, and this bug can be closed.

Jonathan

[Comment 3 Colin Macdonald 2007-07-31 06:37:48 UTC]

Great thanks for pointing that out!  I think my comments re: license are still valid (the gl2ps is GPL not BSD so now should the LICENSE="BSD" change to LICENSE="BSD GPL-2").  However, I'll close it fixed for now.

[Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2007-07-31 12:57:26 UTC]

Hi Colin,

AFAICT gl2ps is LGPL-2 (not GPL-2), so we should probably
change the license to LICENSE="BSD LGPL-2".

Best,
Markus

[Comment 5 Colin Macdonald 2007-07-31 21:04:09 UTC]

You're right, seems my original comment said that too.

[Comment 6 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2007-08-01 13:03:03 UTC]

I just added LGPL-2 to LICENSE in the ebuild.

Thanks,
Markus