On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:47:08PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > This kind of problem does only occur if we ship several versions of a > > > shared library at the same time (in this case libpng2 and libpng3). As > > Or if the user needs to have different versions of said library because of > > some closed-source (or not easily recompilable) library. However, it is a > >... > Closed-source programs and libraries are not a problem if the library we > are talking about is copyrighted under the terms of the GPL (like libpng). My reading of /usr/share/doc/libpng2/copyright is that the *packaging* has been placed under the GPL, but that the library itself is distributed under a BSD license. Is this not the case? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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