Bug#572982: azureus: Multiple license issues.

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Sun Mar 7 23:03:24 UTC 2010


Package: src:azureus
Severity: serious

Hi

GPL and EPL are not compatible[1], yet azureus contains quite a few files under
GPL while Depending on SWT, which is under EPL. Furthermore the source itself
contains multiple files under CPL, which is also incompatible with GPL.

The file com/aelitis/azureus/ui/swt/Sleak.java is listed as being under GPL
and copyrighted by Aelitis and IBM, but reading the file this does not seem
to be the case. The file itself appears be under CPL and owned by IBM and
that Aelitis have (possibly without permission) assumed copyright over it
and relicensed it under GPL. If that have got this permission I feel it
ought be mentioned in debian/copyright.

Note: I am not certain whether the files under LGPL are an issue, as far as
I can tell it depends on whether one of the "derives" from the other. I
would recommend contacting the "debian legal" mailing list for advice
on this.

~Niels

[1] This incompatibility is acknowledged both by GNU and eclipse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#GPLCOMPATIBLE
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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