Hello Here's a summary of the issue for debian-legal folks. Pan package on Debian got bug #699892 because Pan GPLv2 only is linked with gnutls LGPLv3, which is not permitted by FSF. Pan folks are willing to re-license Pan to GPLv2 and later. But getting copyright owner authorisation for all software components copied into Pan is a big problem: there's no obvious contact for some of these components.
Reading http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation, I think we may not need to re-license all components of pan code. Pan is made of several part. Some parts like uulib or e-*-dialog.c are integrated in Pan by source code copy. Other parts like gnutls are integrated with dynamic linking (optionaly). To respect the license terms, I think we need to check the compatibility between parts when the parts are actually working together (i.e. some data is exchanged directly between these 2 components). I.e. we need to check that: - Pan license is compatible with gnutls license - Pan license is compatible with e-*-dialog.c (and others) but we don't need to ensure that e-*dialog.c license is compatible with gnutls license because these 2 parts work independently (well, I think so, you Pan guys should be able to confirm easily). If I'm right, Pan maintainers only need to re-license Pan parts. Since this is the first time I'm dealing with a trciky licensing issue, I'd like some folks from debian-legal mailing list to confirm my opinion. The bugs tracking this issue are http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699892 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693272 All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org _______________________________________________ Pan-devel mailing list Pan-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel
