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

[Julien Cristau]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 00:41:10 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:

> 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!
> 
Since I disagree, I'd like you to get that confirmed in an authoritative
statement from ftpmaster.  In the meantime, I'll downgrade this bug.

Cheers,
Julien
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