On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 10:05:37PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > Package: libcfitsio2, libcfitsio3, slang-cfitsio, libgdal1-1.3.2 > > # apt-cache rdepends output > > # kst-plugins is gpl > > # fv is written by the same guy as fitsio so.. > > > > It's unclear to me why/that/if it's allowed for cfitsio to include GPL > > compress.c from gzip, when it is not itself GPL. In particular, it > > isn't clear why it's allowed for packages which depend on fitsio to be > > distributed under a license other than GPL (modulo exceptions from the > > zlib people). > > > > Well the License.txt file from upstream is actually clear: Great. This is considerably more clear than I anticipated.
I think this still means that the 2 other packages need to be relicensed (or removed, or an exception made by gzip authors), no? Thanks Justin
