Control: clone 741568 -2 Control: reassign -2 gmp Control: retitle -2 please merge GMP's upstream licensing changes
On 03/14/2014 06:29 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:42:23PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On 03/13/2014 09:44 PM, Clint Adams wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 01:11:16AM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>>>> Well, nope. libgnutls28 still links against libgmp10 which is still LGPL3+.
>>>> Unless I'm missing something that would make git (GPL2only)
>>>> unredistributable.
>>>> So no, that's not actually possible (again, unless I'm missing something).
>>>
>>> As far as I'm concerned, git should change its license irrespective of any
>>> gmp compromise.
>>
>> i'd love to see git sort out more sensible licensing too, but libgmp
>> *is* actually in the process of a transition to dual-licensed LGPL3+ and
>> GPL2+:
>
> As I said in my email, I'm already aware of this, but as long as that hasn't
> reached Debian we still have to deal with the problem. You may ask the gmp
> maintainer to merge those changes in Debian though. That would help.
Consider this an ask to the GMP maintainers.
It would be great if GMP's upstream licensing change could be
merged/reflected in the debian packaging, since there are a chain of
outstanding licensing issues that the shift will neatly resolve.
Many many thanks to GMP for making these licensing changes, compromise
though they may be, for the sake of the redistributability of many
critical pieces of the free software ecosystem.
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