[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Bug#749801: xorriso: incompatible licenses?!

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

the libisoburn tarball which contains xorriso is indeed GPLv2+.
(The GNU xorriso package gets derived a GPLv3+ from this.)

Nevertheless it is not intentional that the binary from libisoburn
becomes GPLv3 by linking an optional library. Especially it then
still states at run time:
  $ xorriso -version
  ...
  Provided under GNU GPL version 2 or later

No reason to be sued, but somehow unfortunate.
I will have to think about this.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas