On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I was just about to package "psybnc"[1], a popular irc bouncer. > A closer look into the src/ dir revealed that the author seems to have > followed the Free Software spirit by not re-inventing a lot of wheels, > but didn't pay close attention to legal stuff... > His own works are GPLed, and have correct copyright notes. But there are > two files that worry me: > snprintf.c: This code should never be used on Debian systems for technical reasons (glibc has a perfectly good snprintf() implementation, compiling this other one in would be unnecessary bloat). > (sorry for posting the whole thing, but with legal stuff, I better not > cut away stuff that might be important). > And the second file, bsd-setenv.c: Depending on what "BSD" in bsd-setenv.c means, you may not need this either when using glibc. I presume that the code is conditionally enabled, according to whether or not the system setenv is considered usable? If neither of these are actually used in the binary, no problem -- if both licenses otherwise meet the DFSG, you can ship the sources as-is without concerns over GPL-compatibility, because you just have an aggregation of source code. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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