On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 13:17 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Git in Debian actually links (L)GPL-3+ libraries:
>
> /usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-https links libtasn1.so.6; libtasn1.so.6
> is distributed under non-trivial terms (according to its Debian
> copyright file):
>
On Thu, 2019-03-21 at 10:04 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ansgar Burchardt:
>
> > People have argued before that this applies to Debian. In that
> > case
> > Debian wouldn't be able to distribute binaries of GPL-2-only
> > programs
> > linking against
rfaces would violate the original copyright on those
APIs (unless there is a license to allow using them).
Lots of free software also is very much inspired by proprietary works,
be they APIs, protocol or entire programs.
Ansgar
ew that using an API in any way in source code makes a
work a derivative work of the API provider is not realistic; for
binaries it might be more complicated, but we aren't discussing that
here.
Ansgar
of
OpenSSL and Fedora's solution of handling libssl as a system
library[2].)
Ansgar
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2019/03/msg00083.html
[2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:FAQ#What.27s_the_deal_with_the_OpenSSL_license.3F
a special case ("[...] was specifically based on
modification, _not_ on public performance or other use") seems a bit odd
to me.
Anyway, this discussion seems more appropriate for -legal than -devel.
CC'ed and set Reply-To accordingly.
Ansgar
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