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):
>
> The library is licensed
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 any GPL-3+ runtime libraries like libstdc+
* 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 any GPL-3+ runtime libraries like libstdc++? Or am I
> missing something?
Yes, I think we need the system library e
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
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