Bug#680738: salome-gui: links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Jul  8, 2012 at 12:37:39 +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:

> Package: salome-gui
> Version: 6.5.0-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.2.1
> 
> Hello Debian Science Maintainers,
> thanks for your effort to reintroduce SALOME into Debian.
> 
> However, it seems to me that one of the licensing issues that
> affected the previous package [1] is still present in the
> current salome-gui package.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/619662
> 
> Indeed, salome-gui is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2.1,
> but links with libcos4-1/libomniorb4-1, which include [2] files
> released under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later.
> 
I don't think that's true.  The files listed as GPL in
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/omniorb-dfsg/current/copyright
are src/appl/*, src/tool/omniidl/cxx/cccp/*, which sound like they're
part of some utilities, not the libraries.  This is also what
README.FIRST.txt in the omniorb-dfsg source says.

Cheers,
Julien
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