Hi Florian, On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:15 PM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > >> The other issue (WolfSSL GPL violation due to linking against > >> GPL-incompatible applications via libpq) unfortunately remains.
Can we figure out which packages in Debian are so affected? Could the use of the GPL for libraries really create a lot of issues? Even the FSF does not universally advocate using a lesser license for libraries. From Wikipedia's entry on the LGPL: > In February 1999, GNU Project leader Richard Stallman wrote the essay "Why > you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library" explaining that the > LGPL > had not been deprecated, but that one should not necessarily use the LGPL for > all libraries: > > "Which license is best for a given library is a matter of strategy ... Using > the > ordinary GPL for a library gives free software developers an advantage over > proprietary developers: a library that they can use, while proprietary > developers cannot use it" (quote partially reproduced) Kind regards Felix Lechner
