Bug#520982: kdelibs: win subdirectory of sourcecode contains undistributable mix of GPL/BSD licenses
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 06:27:12 Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Package: kdelibs
> Version: 3.5.10.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: dfsg #1
>
>
> in the orig.tar.gz, the win subdirectory contains in.h which is licensed
> GPL2+ and pwd.h which is 4-clause BSD. This combination is well known to
> not be distributable.
>
> readdir.{h,c} is ASL 1.1 which is also not compatible with the GPL.
>
> Hopefully, since this sourcecode all seems to be related to running KDE on
> windows, it could be removed from the upstream tarball.
as the we aren't actually compiling those sources, it is just files in a
directory, all under licenses acceptable for main.
I don't see this being any different as gpl code that *can* link to openssl,
but where we don't in debian distribute the compiled work.
if we were building and distributing the result, I would agree that it is a
issue, but this is not the case here.
/Sune
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