Bug#814445: Non-Free file: src/stdlib/SDL_qsort.c

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 11:37 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> 2016-02-21 03:09 Ben Hutchings:
> > I happen to know the original author, so I've mailed him requesting he
> > consider relicencing.
> 
> I suppose that you were looking into this as part of the BSP.

Yes.

> I notified upstream a few days ago, and they didn't want to be in
> possible breach of the license, so they changed the implementation for
> libsdl2:
> 
>   http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sdl-maintainers/2016-February/002374.html
> 
> libsdl1.2 suffers from the same problem, but we can just repack the
> orig.tar and disable the use of this implementation (it's supposed to
> not be used by default, so an empty file would do, or otherwise the file
> from libsdl2 can be used).
> 
> So, in summary, I am going to upload fixes in the next few days.
> 
> 
> At this point I suspect that upstream is not going to go back (unless
> the implementation that they now use is problematic).  Maybe it's good
> if you could get this relicenced just in case, e.g. for the benefit of
> other distros.  What do you think?

It might be.

Gareth has now updated the licence text at
<http://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/software.html#qsort>

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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