Bug#838244: hurd: license incompatibility between ext2fs (GPLv2-only) and libparted (GPLv3-or-later)

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Hi Samuel and Kalle,

I am looking at old rc bugs in order to clean up the archive and ran
into this bug.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:42:57AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 01:29:17 +0300, wrote:
> > Until that is implemented, the partition-table support in
> > libstore could be disabled altogether, because GNU Mach currently
> > provides a named device for each partition.
> 
> But the installer does not use it, for flexibility.
> 
> But storeio can be used as an intermediate between the two.
> 
> But what is actually linked against libparted is libstoreio, which is
> shared between storeio and ext2fs. So we'd need two different
> libstoreio, one with parted support, the other without.

Given that about eight years have passed, would either of you be kind
enough to check whether there still is a license incompatibility? If
not, it feels unlikely that this will resolve itself soon. Would it make
sense to move hurd into the contrib section as a means of acknowledging
the license problem? Do you see another way of making forward progress
here?

Helmut