[Android-tools-devel] android-platform-system-core_21-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Sep 18 20:47:05 UTC 2014



Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am 2014-08-27 um 18:00 schrieb Thorsten Alteholz:
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> unfortunately I have to reject your package.
>>
>> sdcard/sdcard.c is licensed under Apache but includes fuse.h which is GPLv2.
>> This combination is not possible.
>> (see also http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html)
>>
>>  Thorsten
> 
> Upstream seems to have replaced that fuse.h by an autogenerated one,
> thus avoiding licensing issues [1], so updating to a more recent state
> will likely solve this problem.
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> [1]
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/60281d556ded9fed3df770befb58990f7ae2e04f

Unfortunately, it seems that commit is newer than any of the SDK releases.
The good news is that the issue is actually not relevant to Debian because the
`sdcard` executable will never be built on Debian.  It is only meant to be
built as part of the Android OS.

.hc



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