Re: GPL and the "system library" exception

2019-03-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
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): >

Re: GPL and the "system library" exception

2019-03-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
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

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Jakma writes: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: >> #include >> int main(void) { zlog_rotate(); return 0; } >> >> is not an adaption of any GPL code. It is fully written by my >> own. > > It is written by you, and you have copyright in it (in some way, I > have the vague idea there c

GPL and the "system library" exception

2019-03-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Dear debian-legal@, suppose I compile the following trivial GPL-2-only program: +--- | #include | int main() { throw std::exception(); } +--- Then the resulting binary program links (among other things) against libstdc++6, licensed under GPL-3+ with runtime exception. The GPL requires the comp

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 07/11/2013 14:15, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Lars Meyser wrote: >> No I did not miss that, but I'm not entirely sure of the implications. So if >> I >> use a packaged version of a program which has been modified (e.g. by Debian >> patches) I am not obliged to make the s