Re: RFC: removing figlet source from Xen

[Ben Guthro <bguthro@virtualiron.com>]

Alternately - a clone could be used:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/toilet/
http://libcaca.zoy.org/toilet.html
(LGPL)

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The Xen source tree currently contains a copy of the figlet sources. During
> the hypervisor build it builds figlet and uses it to generate the big ascii
> art 'Xen 3.1.0' version string shown upon boot.
>
> The problem is that the figlet code is licensed under the original Artistic 
> 1.0 license, and not the clarified version. The original non-clarified
> license is classed as non-free by Debian and on the  forbidden list for 
> Fedora too:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#head-d8cc605dd386091c8b6be97b8a43fb6a5d624ae1
>
> So, the figlet source code in Xen has to be removed if we're to continue
> shipping Xen in Fedora. While I could re-spin the source tar.gz files myself
> before importing them to Fedora, it'd be preferrable if the official Xen
> source code tar.gz were shipped without figlet in the first place.
>
> I'm happy to send a patch to clean this up - just wondering which option
> would be preferred...
>
>  - Remove figlet entirely and just have a normal size "Xen 3.1.0" string
>    printed at boot
>  - Include the pre-generated large ascii art "Xen" and have normal size
>    "3.1.0" version stirng.
>  - Optionally call out to a plain figlet binary in $PATH, using a normal
>    size version string if not found.
>
> Personally I'd just go for option 1 or 2 since they're least effort...
>
> Dan.
>