Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:32 AM, James Y Knight wrote:
After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across
one example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2-
only, and is linked against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing. (filed
bug 579494).
One further note: Fedora seems to have already run across this issue
and fixed their socat package to build against compat-readline5-devel:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.package.announce/34983
I guess it's probably easier to check these sorts of things in Fedora
since RPM has a license field in the metadata.
James
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