Comments regarding asterisk_11.6.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes

Jeremy Lainé jeremy.laine at m4x.org
Sun Dec 8 14:00:21 UTC 2013


On 12/08/2013 02:56 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:57:18AM +0100, Jeremy Lainé wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12/07/2013 08:21 PM, Paul Richards Tagliamonte wrote:
>>> Howdy maintainer,
>>>
>>> Keep an eye on asterisk-11.6.0\utils\db1-ast and make sure none of that is
>>> getting put into a GPL binary or lib linked to a GPL'd app - it's BSD-4,
>>> which would result in something we can't distribute
>> OK, well caught Paul. As far as I can tell it's used (only) for the asterisk DB migration
>> tools:
>>
>> /usr/sbin/astdb2sqlite3
>> /usr/sbin/astdb2bdb
>>
>> I will pull these ASAP from the asterisk packages.
>>
>> Jeremy
> Feel free to, but you don't need to unless they start to get put into
> the same binary :)
>
> I was just giving you a heads up, since it was just something I saw and
> figured I'd mention (and is a common pain point later on)
>
> As long as they're in different binaries, you should be fine :)

The ast-db1 library (BSD-4) is being linked with the two mentioned 
binaries, which are GPL => isn't this the problematic case you mentioned?

Jeremy



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