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
Hi,
I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable copyright
format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/*
To give an example based on the docs[1]
Files: *
Copyright: 1975-2010 Ulla Upstream
License: GPL-2+
Files: docs/*.1
Copyright: 2010 Manuela Manpager
License: GPL-
On Saturday, January 2, 2021 10:30:56 AM EST Matthew Vernon wrote:
> I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable copyright
> format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/*
That's not good practice. You should ask the package maintainer to include
such information in debia
In general, this license clash doesn't seem to be a strictly downstream issue.
Perhaps you should file bugs with the upstream projects to either revise their
licensing if they can or explicitly depend on libeditreadline-dev, especially
for the projects that fail to build with it.
I think you wo
There are a few lawyers here, myself included, though I’m not sure anyone on
list actually has an attorney-client relationship with the distro or its makers
(and to be clear, I have no such relationship and nothing I say here should be
construed as legal advice).
All of that said, the suggesti
Hi,
Le 02/01/2021 à 11:30, Matthew Vernon a écrit :
I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable copyright
format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/*
FWIW, I do that in most of the (simple) packages I’m maintaining: I’m
fine using the same license as upstream, hen
Hi,
David Prévot writes:
> Le 02/01/2021 à 11:30, Matthew Vernon a écrit :
>
>> I have noticed some packages using the newer machine-readable
>> copyright format, but not specifying any copyright for debian/*
>
> FWIW, I do that in most of the (simple) packages I’m maintaining: I’m
> fine using
7 matches
Mail list logo
