Bug#741196: libpetsc3.4.2: libpetsc.so.3.4.2 links with both GPL-licensed and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:48:34 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 18:34:35 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > As already said in the original bug report, please see the almost
> > identical bug #740463 for some further details about the SCOTCH
> > licensing issues.
> > 
> > I hope this clarifies.
> > 
> From what I understand CeCILL-C is intended to be more permissive than
> plain CeCILL, which itself is explicitly GPL-compatible.  So not really.

Regardless of what the license is *intended* to be, CeCILL-C in fact
includes restrictions not present in the GNU GPL and has no explicit
conversion-to-GPL clause, unlike the CeCILL license.

As a consequence, CeCILL-C really appears to be GPL-incompatible,
unfortunately...


Anyway, thanks for following up on this bug report of mine.
And thanks for any help you may provide to fix the issue!

Bye.


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