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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2017-08-11 22:01 GMT+02:00 Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com>:
>   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.

I am not sure what you mean that the programs are violating the GPL.

Many of these applications are themselves GPL, some others are
probably BSD/MIT/etc, which is fine as long as they are not
specifically incompatible with the GPL.

The binary of an application linking against libsdl1.2debian in this
case will be GPL as a whole, or another license more strict than the
GPL (e.g. GPL with extra clauses) -- unless the license is
incompatible and cannot be linked together in the first place.  I do
not know if there are cases like that one in the Debian archives, I
don't expect so.

The code of the original application continues to be under the
original license, which people can take away and compile without the
dependency on libcaca/slang or others.

So I don't think that linking against libcaca is problematic, unless
there are applications with a license incompatible with the GPL.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>