Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-09-30 Thread Debian/GNU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-09-30 02:18, Ben Finney wrote: > Yes, that is clearly what the GPL calls an “additional restriction” > on the recipient's exercise of their freedoms guaranteed by the > GPL. > > GPLv2 §6: > > Each time you redistribute the Program (or any w

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-09-30 Thread forum : : für : : umläute
On 2015-09-30 04:38, Jeff Epler wrote: > I was unaware of this detail of the GPLv3 license. > > The first source file that I looked at in linuxsampler's svn trunk, > src/linuxsampler.cpp, has the "any later version" clause enabled. a quick check shows that of the 303 sourcefiles ("*.cpp" and "*.h

r-cran-afex package, violates the GPL?

2015-09-30 Thread Jonathon Love
hi, i've just packaged and submitted the r-cran-afex package, and it has been accepted https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797819 but now i'm wondering if it doesn't violate the GPL2. it is released under GPL3+, but it has dependencies which are GPL2 r-cran-afex and its dependenc

Re: r-cran-afex package, violates the GPL?

2015-09-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathon Love writes ("r-cran-afex package, violates the GPL?"): > i've just packaged and submitted the r-cran-afex package, and it has > been accepted > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797819 > > but now i'm wondering if it doesn't violate the GPL2. > > it is released under

Re: r-cran-afex package, violates the GPL?

2015-09-30 Thread Jonathon Love
hi ian, On 30/09/2015 2:58 pm, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jonathon Love writes ("r-cran-afex package, violates the GPL?"): >> i've just packaged and submitted the r-cran-afex package, and it has >> been accepted >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797819 >> >> but now i'm wondering i