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Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release



Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Bdale Garbee wrote:
>>     patch d-i to build successfully against the syslinux in sid
>
> syslinux is GPL'd, so this would result in shipping d-i images in wheezy
> which contain a GPL'd binary for which there is no source in wheezy.

My unstated assumption was that if d-i were able to successfully build
against the syslinux version in sid, that said version would be promoted
into testing before the actual release.  For the record, I certainly
wasn't trying to propose an obvious GPL violation!

Bdale

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