Le Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:29:52PM -0500, Steve Langasek écrivait: > The latest version of libdbd-mysql-perl build-depends on > libmysqclient-dev. I'm afraid that, although this fixed the FTBFS bug, > it potentially renders some software in our archive non-distributable. > Because the new libmysqlclient12 package is licensed under the GPL, any > GPL-incompatible apps which depend on libdbd-mysql-perl would be in > violation of the libmysqlclient12 license.
I disagree completely with this bug. The perl module "links" to libmysqlclient12, but the perl module is available under the GPL so it's ok. Any other program/script "uses" DBD::mysql but doesn't link to libmysqlclient12 ... so there's no problem on that side either. > I have not had a chance to look through the list of packages that depend > on libdbd-mysql-perl to see if any of these are actually > GPL-incompatible; however, libmysqlclient10 has been reintroduced to the > archive for just this sort of situation. Please consider changing your > build-dep back to libmysqclient10-dev and dropping the libssl-dev > build-dep. Not until you can convince me that my interpretation of the license is clearly wrong. I'm ccing debian-legal to have further input. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
