On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 at 00:48:43 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > There are some packages with GPL-2-only licensed binaries that link with > GPL-3+ licensed libreadline.so.8. I do not know Debian-legal's current > interpretation on that matter.
debian-legal is purely advisory, does not control what is in Debian, and does not necessarily contain any actual lawyers. The archive administrators <ftpmas...@debian.org> are the group that controls what is and isn't accepted into Debian. smcv (not a lawyer either)