Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-29 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:09 PM, James Y Knight wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:32 AM, James Y Knight wrote: >> >> After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across one >> example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2-only, and is >> linked against GPLv3 libread

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread James Y Knight
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:32 AM, James Y Knight wrote: After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across one example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2- only, and is linked against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing. (filed bug 579494). One further note: Fedora se

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:27:35PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:07:56 +0200 > Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > * Neil Williams , 2010-04-28, 17:48: > > >> After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across > > >> one example of this already in Debian testing: socat.

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:07:56 +0200 Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Neil Williams , 2010-04-28, 17:48: > >> After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across > >> one example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is > >> GPLv2-only, and is linked against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing.

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Neil Williams , 2010-04-28, 17:48: After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across one example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2-only, and is linked against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing. (filed bug 579494). Umm: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/poo

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:32:36 -0400 James Y Knight wrote: > After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across > one example of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is > GPLv2-only, and is linked against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing. > (filed bug 579494). Umm: http://package

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* James Y Knight , 2010-04-28, 11:32: One of those (#553741) was filed against CLisp, which is licensed under GPLv2-only. Unfortunately, readline is under the GPLv3+ as of version 6, so making that change is impossible to do legally. It's not the first time license change in a library triggers

Re: Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
James Y Knight, le Wed 28 Apr 2010 11:32:36 -0400, a écrit : > After checking a scattering of random packages, I happened across one example > of this already in Debian testing: socat. It is GPLv2-only, and is linked > against GPLv3 libreadline6 in testing. (filed bug 579494). Worse than that: a p

Libreadline6 is GPLv3: incompatible with GPLv2-only software

2010-04-28 Thread James Y Knight
I noticed that there's a bunch of bugs filed to transition packages depending on libreadline5-dev to libreadline-dev so that they can transition to using libreadline6. [1]. One of those (#553741) was filed against CLisp, which is licensed under GPLv2-only. Unfortunately, readline is under t