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Re: GPL-2-only packages using GPL-3+ readline



There are a few lawyers here, myself included, though I’m not sure anyone on list actually has an attorney-client relationship with the distro or its makers (and to be clear, I have no such relationship and nothing I say here should be construed as legal advice). 

All of that said, the suggestion to use an older readline version with GPLv2 or GPLv2+ licensing when building with GPLv2-only packages seems appropriate to me.

Happy New Year everyone!

 Best,
  Jim

Sent from my iPhone, apologies for misspellings, odd autocorrects, misplaced edits and other randomness.

On Jan 2, 2021, at 2:48 AM, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 at 00:48:43 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
There are some packages with GPL-2-only licensed binaries that link with
GPL-3+ licensed libreadline.so.8. I do not know Debian-legal's current
interpretation on that matter.

debian-legal is purely advisory, does not control what is in Debian, and
does not necessarily contain any actual lawyers. The archive administrators
<ftpmaster@debian.org> are the group that controls what is and isn't
accepted into Debian.

   smcv
   (not a lawyer either)


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