Le Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 08:39:18AM +0200, Ansgar π a Γ©crit : > Hi, > > On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 07:27 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Yes that seems likely.Β I think that the decision in other distributions > > may have had more to do with aligning interests with organization who > > fund them, though. > > This is moving into conspiracy theory territory... We can as well > suspect reptiloids behind this.
This is uncalled for. Saying that Fedora is influenced by RedHat for example is not a conspiracy theory. Debian has traditionally adopted a stricter approach to licenses than other distributions. > Debian has always allowed GPL-2-only code linked against GPL-3+-only > libraries such as the libstdc++ or GCC runtime libraries. (You ignore > that libraries aside of OpenSSL exist.) Note that libstdc++ and GCC runtime libraries are covered by the GCC Runtime Library Exception which is different from the system library exception. Cheers, Bill.
