Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:09 PM, James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:32 AM, James Y Knight wrote:
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>> 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).
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> 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
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> I guess it's probably easier to check these sorts of things in Fedora since RPM has a license field in the metadata.
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Why not using http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ already included in
debian and that seems to be source compatible.
Bastien
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