Bug#871807: libsdl1.2debian links to incompatible licensed libs indirectly

[Thomas Charron]

  So in the meantime, every application which has been used, as you pointed
out, for the last decade or two has been in violation of the GPL...

  I'm not trying to sound like a jerk here, but it's kind of an issue...
It's hidden by libcaca.

  Thomas

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <
manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Control: severity -1 wishlist
> Control: tags -1 + wontfix
>
>
> Hi,
>
> 2017-08-11 20:25 GMT+02:00 Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Package: libsdl1.2debian
> > Version: 1.2.15+dfsg1-4
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >   After inspecting my application for library issues, I found that it
> uses
> > this library, libsdl1.2debian, which in turn links to libcaca for ASCII
> > rendering.  While the license for libcaca is permissive, IT, in turn
> links
> > to slang.  Slang is VERY much GPL, which immediatly invalidates the GPL
> > license of libsdl.  Technically speaking, any application which is using
> > libsdl is infected by the GPL due to this linking.  Please either remove
> the
> > dependency on libcaca, or have libcaca remove the dependency on libslang.
>
> libsdl1.2 has been in the archive for over a decade, almost two, and a
> few years after it's been deprecated I don't think that it's a good
> time to remove this dependency.
>
> You can use libsdl2, which apart from being what active codebases
> should be using, it doesn't link against libcaca (I don't know if it's
> supported, but nobody ever asked for it after a few years and a couple
> of stable releases).
>
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>
>



-- 
-- Thomas
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