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Bug#762461: marked as done (libusbip: please also ship shared library version)

Your message dated Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:41:47 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#762461: libusbip: please also ship shared library version
has caused the Debian Bug report #762461,
regarding libusbip: please also ship shared library version
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: libusbip-dev
Version: 1.1.1+3.2.17-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

the vendor of the following USB client application cannot provide a
binary-only version of his client for Debian Wheezy, because the shared
library version of libusbip is missing. 
https://www.virtualhere.com/usb_client_software

He already provides binaries for Ubuntu, because the libusbip.so is included
in their libusbip-dev package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/libusbip-dev/filelist

Please also include the shared library version in addition to the static
one.

-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 17:35 +0200, Christian Wick wrote:
> Am 22.09.2014 17:10, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 15:52 +0200, Christian Wick wrote:
> >> Package: libusbip-dev
> >> Version: 1.1.1+3.2.17-1
> >> Severity: wishlist
> >>
> >>
> >> Please also include the shared library version in addition to the static
> >> one.
> > So far as I know, libusip does not have a stable ABI.  In that case this
> > will not solve the vendor's problem.
> >
> There is already the static version of the library in this package. The 
> vendor told me that he could technically use the static library, but 
> cannot use it for legal reasons as his binary is closed-source.

Using a shared library also does not solve this problem, as libusbip is
licenced under GPLv2, not any version of LGPL.

> I have managed to recompile the package with the option 
> "--disable-shared" removed. This would solve the problem.
> The vendor provides binaries for each distribution and architecture.

As the sole purpose of this request is apparently to aid in copyright
infringement, I am closing this bug.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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