Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 mars 2017 18:11 -0700, Clint Byrum  : >> Right. That is how it also works in Spain, and I suspect that in many >> other countries work the same way. >> >> I understand that Debian wants to take a position of zero (or minimal) >> risk, and I also understand the desire to respect the interpre

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:10:01PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3 [1] (therefore also with GPLv2+). It's more complicated than "therefore also". Imagine a GPL2+ program library linked with a GPL2 library. Now also link this program with an Apache 2.0

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 05:08:24 +0200: > On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 > > +0200: > >> On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > >>> On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of the GPL > program in question had any intention ever of not allowing their program > to be used along with OpenSSL, when they where the ones implementing >

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 > +0200: >> On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: So, the best case situation (IMHO) would be that a lawyer tell us

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message of 2017-03-30 02:49:04 +0200: > On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > >> So, the best case situation (IMHO) would be that a lawyer tell us that > >> Apache 2.0 is also compatible with

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Richard Fontana
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:49:04AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > However, I still don't understand why we don't just declare OpenSSL a > system library; or at least define a clear policy for when a package is > considered part of the base system (so the GPL system exception applies > t

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 00:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> So, the best case situation (IMHO) would be that a lawyer tell us that >> Apache 2.0 is also compatible with GPLv2-only, and that we stop playing >> the game of being amateur lawyers instead of sof

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/03/17 00:26, Josh Triplett wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: >>> Florian Weimer wrote: > #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. > (snip) > #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian > has a

segfault trying to install at netcfg[1996]

2017-03-29 Thread Felix Miata
Using: http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso 27-Jan-2017 22:23 35M burned to CDRW. /proc/cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=linux vga=788 initrd=initrd.gz --- ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 netcfg/disable_dhcp=true netcfg/get_hostname=myhost base

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Josh Triplett
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: > > Florian Weimer wrote: > >>> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. > >>> > >> (snip) > >> > >>> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian > >>> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 03/29/2017 11:10 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > So, the best case situation (IMHO) would be that a lawyer tell us that > Apache 2.0 is also compatible with GPLv2-only, and that we stop playing > the game of being amateur lawyers instead of software developers. But that's not how the la

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 22:25, Brian May wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > >> But in the worst case, it will be compatible with GPLv2+ and GPLv3. > > I am not sure I see this as the worst case situation. Or maybe you meant > to write "incompatable"? > No. Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPLv3 [

Bug#859060: ITP: python-flask-socketio -- Socket.IO integration for Flask applications

2017-03-29 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls)" * Package name: flask-socketio Version : 2.8.6 Upstream Author : Miguel Grinberg * URL : https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-SocketIO * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 22:28, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> So... does this means that we are actually *now* shipping OpenSSL with >> GPL software on the same DVD? > This is permitted, or are you joking? > > > Yes It was a sarca

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > So... does this means that we are actually *now* shipping OpenSSL with > GPL software on the same DVD? This is permitted, or are you joking? -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:25:04AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > But in the worst case, it will be compatible with GPLv2+ and GPLv3. > I am not sure I see this as the worst case situation. It's worse that being compatible with GPL2 too. > Or maybe you meant to write "incompatable"? No. -- WBR, wR

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Brian May
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > But in the worst case, it will be compatible with GPLv2+ and GPLv3. I am not sure I see this as the worst case situation. Or maybe you meant to write "incompatable"? -- Brian May

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 19:37, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:49:48 +0200 Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > [...] >> I think that any package that is essential for the base OS >> (aka Priority: required) should qualify for the system exception. > > Well, for the record, package libssl1.0.

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/03/17 15:58, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: >> On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: >>> Florian Weimer wrote: > #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. > (snip) > #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian > has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I so

Re: dlopen()ing shared libraries considered harmful (was Re: Depends/Recommends from libraries)

2017-03-29 Thread Jens Reyer
On 03/26/2017 09:37 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Guillem Jover: > >>> dlopen()ing dependencies in the way that is most commonly implemented, >>> with dlopen("libimobiledevice.so.6") and dlsym(handle, "idevice_new") >>> or similar, has some practical problems for Debian: >>> >>> * The libraries us

Bug#859018: ITP: libpandoc-wrapper-perl -- wrapper for the mighty Pandoc document converter

2017-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libpandoc-wrapper-perl Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Jakob Voß * URL : https://github.com/nichtich/Pandoc-Wrapper * License : GPL-2 P

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
> On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: >> Florian Weimer wrote: #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >>> (snip) >>> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for GMP. >>> >>> I

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-29 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: >>> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >>> >> (snip) >> >>> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian >>> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for >>> GMP. >> >> I would like t