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Bug#606520: linux-tools-2.6.36: /usr/bin/perf_2.6.36 links against openssl but copyright lists only GPLv2 without exceptions



On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 09:08 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> > I have no idea what the upstream developers intended, they seem a bit
> > clueless about distribution.  I only just realised that they try to use
> > libbfd (GPLv3, incompatible) even though perf can get the same
> > functionality from libiberty (GPLv2)!
> 
> Hmm, are you planning to file a separate bug report about that?

There already is one.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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