Bug#815060: citation needed?

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:41:02PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> could you please cite those "lawyers and people" or explain their arguments? 
> (Not that citing a lawyer neccessarily means anything, but just stating some 
> lawyers think something is not even enough to think about removing a package 
> from the archive.)

I have not done a survey but I don't know anyone disagreeing. Several distributions
were taken down for bundling Nvidia drivers AFAIK, also:

(1) The Conservancy has an active GPL Compliance Project For Linux Developers and
    already supports Christoph's lawsuit against VMWare.

(2) We lead with a bad example by engaging in this dark-grey to black area
    activities

Legal issues prevent me from saying more, but somebody else might want
to step forward.

> And the ZFS situation is not comparable because that one is about a 
> incompatability of two different licences…

In both cases, code of a GPL-incompatible license is linked to GPLed code.

Whether the incompatible license is free or non-free does not make
any difference at all.

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