reassign 520982 src:kdelibs
thanks
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:18:41AM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 06:27:12 Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > Package: kdelibs
> > Version: 3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: dfsg #1
> >
> >
> > in the orig.tar.gz, the win subdirectory contains in.h which is licensed
> > GPL2+ and pwd.h which is 4-clause BSD. This combination is well known to
> > not be distributable.
> >
> > readdir.{h,c} is ASL 1.1 which is also not compatible with the GPL.
> >
> > Hopefully, since this sourcecode all seems to be related to running KDE on
> > windows, it could be removed from the upstream tarball.
>
> as the we aren't actually compiling those sources, it is just files in a
> directory, all under licenses acceptable for main.
> I don't see this being any different as gpl code that *can* link to openssl,
> but where we don't in debian distribute the compiled work.
>
> if we were building and distributing the result, I would agree that it is a
> issue, but this is not the case here.
>
Sorry, in this case I was not talking about the kdelibs binary package,
but the kdelibs source package. I'm reassigning it.
This is not just like code that could be compiled against openssl, in
that case, you aren't redistributing an unacceptable mix of licenses.
This is more like if you had GPL code that EMBEDDED a copy of openssl.
stew
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