Bug#979090: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2023-03-10 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 1/27/23 12:04, Bastian Germann wrote: Control: severity -1 serious Control: retitle -1 avrdude: inaccurate copyright file There are more problems: The doc's GFDL license is not mentioned and seems to be the variant without NIV. This is considered a non-free license by Debian. Please ask ups

Bug#979090: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2023-02-18 Thread Gregor Riepl
Since merge requests are disabled on the Salsa repository, I'm attaching the patch here. Almost everything in the project is GPL-2+, with only a few outliers: install-sh is X11, and debian/avrdude.metainfo.xml is CC-BY-SA-3.0. I believe this is acceptable under the terms of libreadline8. @Milan

Bug#979090: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2023-02-17 Thread Gregor Riepl
Is anybody already working on this? I will attempt to fix d/copyright and submit a patch or MR for review otherwise.

Bug#979090: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2023-01-27 Thread Bastian Germann
Control: severity -1 serious Control: retitle -1 avrdude: inaccurate copyright file There are more problems: The doc's GFDL license is not mentioned and seems to be the variant without NIV. This is considered a non-free license by Debian. Please ask upstream for a license change or drop the files

Bug#979090: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2021-10-07 Thread Bastian Germann
Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 copyright file should mention "or later" clause I cannot find a single file that is GPL-2-only, all of them seem to have the "or later" clause. So please fix this in the copyright file.

Bug#979090: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

2021-01-02 Thread Bastian Germann
Package: avrdude Severity: important This package depends on libreadline8 which is GPL-3+ licensed. According to debian/copyright parts of your package are GPL-2-only licensed. If that is also (transitively) the case for the binaries that link with libreadline.so.8 it might be legally problema