Bug#617613: FreeCAD not in Testing

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:49:10 -0500 Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 15:20 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > Yes, but I think freecad should not be released in a stable version
> > (again) with this serious issue unsolved.
> 
> Indeed, a package with a copyright/licensing issue can't go into a
> release, and can't go into testing.
> 
> IMO this isn't an issue,

Please let me understand:

 (0) you (still) don't think that the OCTPL is GPL-incompatible

or

 (1) you agree that the OCTPL is GPL-incompatible, but you think that
     this is not an issue for the package freecad linked with
     libopencascade-*

Is it (0) or (1)?

> and the fact that Debian allowed it into
> unstable and the squeeze release indicates that the project probably
> doesn't think so either.
[...]

The issue may have been overlooked at first.
If I recall correctly, the initial discussions about the OCTPL were
mainly focused on its DFSG-freeness.
The GPL-incompatibility issue was only raised later and was not
immediately clear.

When I filed the bug report, the GPL-incompatibility had been
acknowledged by Open CASCADE S.A.S. itself (that is to say, the authors
of the OCTPL!).

> 
> But until there's an official ruling on this issue, the package can't go
> any further in Debian.

An official ruling on the fact that a GPL'ed package which links with
both a GPL'ed library and a GPL-incompatible library has a serious bug?!?

I thought this was agreed upon long time ago within the Debian Project.
I have seen so many packages with such issues reported as serious bugs
(for instance for GPL programs linking with OpenSSL), that I think it
goes without saying!


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