Filippo Rusconi <lopi...@debian.org> writes:
> Greetings, > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:41:07AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: >>Hello, >> >>A package I maintain (src:gudhi) was mostly under GPL-3+ up to and >>including the current version in the archives. Since then, upstream has >>switched to an MIT license, but with the caveat that many parts of the >>code has GPL dependencies and that "for practical purposes this code is >>GPL-3 for the user" [1]. > >From the page you provide a link to, the following shows little understanding >of > licensing issues: > > 8< ~~~~ > > GPLv3 is a Copyleft license that gives the user the right to use, copy and > modify the code freely for non-commercial purposes. > > ~~~~ >8 Oh, yeah, I missed that on the license page. I'll raise it as an issue with upstream. > Maybe you would like to ensure with them that they understand what they are > doing with this mixing of modules/licenses. I did have a short discussion with them regarding the topic in general [2]. [2] https://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/gudhi-users/2019-September/000320.html Thanks for your feedback. Best, Gard
