On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 11:37 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Hi Ben, > > 2016-02-21 03:09 Ben Hutchings: > > I happen to know the original author, so I've mailed him requesting he > > consider relicencing. > > I suppose that you were looking into this as part of the BSP.
Yes. > I notified upstream a few days ago, and they didn't want to be in > possible breach of the license, so they changed the implementation for > libsdl2: > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sdl-maintainers/2016-February/002374.html > > libsdl1.2 suffers from the same problem, but we can just repack the > orig.tar and disable the use of this implementation (it's supposed to > not be used by default, so an empty file would do, or otherwise the file > from libsdl2 can be used). > > So, in summary, I am going to upload fixes in the next few days. > > > At this point I suspect that upstream is not going to go back (unless > the implementation that they now use is problematic). Maybe it's good > if you could get this relicenced just in case, e.g. for the benefit of > other distros. What do you think? It might be. Gareth has now updated the licence text at <http://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/software.html#qsort> Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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