On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:32:36 -0400 James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net> 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). Umm: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/socat/current/copyright This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. I'm not saying other packages might not still be affected but this one is OK. The README you mention only describes "GNU GPL": http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/README Tests for this kind of thing are quite a lot of work because you need to download the entire source and run something like licensecheck or check the COPYING file in the source - which is GPLv2 or (at your option) any later version. I think 579494 should be closed. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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