[Debian-med-packaging] GPL and vienna package

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:14:06AM +0000, Alexandre Mestiashvili a écrit :
> Log:
> Lincense change for lib/naview.c kindly granted by Robert E Bruccoleri.
> 
> 
> Modified: trunk/packages/vienna-rna/trunk/debian/copyright
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/packages/vienna-rna/trunk/debian/copyright	2011-02-08 01:40:41 UTC (rev 5929)
> +++ trunk/packages/vienna-rna/trunk/debian/copyright	2011-02-08 09:13:54 UTC (rev 5930)
> @@ -22,14 +22,28 @@
>  
>  Files:lib/naview.c
>  Copyright: 1988 Robert E. Bruccoleri
> -License:
> - Copying of this software, in whole or in part, is permitted
> - provided that the copies are not made for commercial purposes,
> - appropriate credit for the use of the software is given, this
> - copyright notice appears, and notice is given that the copying
> - is by permission of Robert E. Bruccoleri. Any other copying
> - requires specific permission.
> - 
> +License: License: GPL-2+

Hi Alexandre,

GPL-2+ is not compatible with non-free licences, I wonder if we are not making
the whole package redistributable. We probably need an exception in addition
to the GPL. See the following URL for more information:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs

Thanks for your efforts, and have a nice day !

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan