reopen 619662 thanks
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:43:07 +0000 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Dear Francesco, Hi Adam! :-) > > Thank you for your report. I appreciate your thorough work to make > certain that Debian is complying with the licenses of its packages. I am happy to see that it is appreciated: thanks for saying so explicitly! > > In the case of Salomé, as with Elmer [1], including a couple of > GPL-licensed files in the source tree does not mean that "package salome > is effectively under the GNU GPL". The files which are under GPL2+ [2] > are either deprecated and not used, If they are deprecated and unused, then I think they should really be dropped from the orig tar archive (by repacking it). Seeing GPL-licensed files which are in fact unused is really confusing, IMHO. > or as with Elmer [1], scripts > generated by the build system. That's OK, as long as there's no linking between those and the rest. > None of that code enters any of the > libraries or executables, and salome does not create derived works with > those files and linked libraries. OK. > Therefore the GPL limitations do not > apply to linking salome libs or executables with any dependent libs. Wait, what about the linking with libcos4-1/libomniorb4-1 and with libqscintilla2-5 (see the original bug report)? Linking with GPL-licensed libraries makes the final result effectively under the GPL. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/618696 > [2] > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/salome/salome_5.1.3-12/copyright > > [BTW, thanks for the changelog/copyright link, I had not known about > it.] [I find them useful, indeed!] > > I believe this resolves all four of your issues, which deal with GPL > incompatibilities with the OCTPL, OpenSSL, CPL and CeCILL-C license, so > I am closing this bug. If you disagree, feel free to reopen it. I think the issues still hold: hence, I am reopening the bug report. Anyway, thank you very much for your kind reply. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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