Hi, 2017-08-11 22:01 GMT+02:00 Thomas Charron <twaf...@gmail.com>: > So in the meantime, every application which has been used, as you pointed > out, for the last decade or two has been in violation of the GPL... > > I'm not trying to sound like a jerk here, but it's kind of an issue... > It's hidden by libcaca.
I am not sure what you mean that the programs are violating the GPL. Many of these applications are themselves GPL, some others are probably BSD/MIT/etc, which is fine as long as they are not specifically incompatible with the GPL. The binary of an application linking against libsdl1.2debian in this case will be GPL as a whole, or another license more strict than the GPL (e.g. GPL with extra clauses) -- unless the license is incompatible and cannot be linked together in the first place. I do not know if there are cases like that one in the Debian archives, I don't expect so. The code of the original application continues to be under the original license, which people can take away and compile without the dependency on libcaca/slang or others. So I don't think that linking against libcaca is problematic, unless there are applications with a license incompatible with the GPL. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
