Bug#219595: More information on building 'standalone' libffi

2003-11-09 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Nathanael, Could you reply to both parts of this message? Thanks. PART I == Nathanael Nerode wrote: There is really nothing wrong with sharing install-sh friends. Lots of packages do it. This is not true. The GNU GPL version 2, section 2 says: --- BEGIN--- 2. You may modify your copy

Bug#219595: libffi2: Licensing problems

2003-11-07 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Package: libffi2 Version: 1:3.3.2-3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 Copyright considerations Hi! Libffi2 is supposed to be licensend under a very permissive license of the type do whatever you want with the code[0]. Yet, the build procedure of the Debian libffi2 source package make

Bug#219595: libffi2: Licensing problems

2003-11-07 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Matthias Klose wrote: why do you think it's derivative work? It's IMO clear, that libffi comes with it's own license (fastjar as well). sure you can build libffi without building gcc: cd libffi; ./configure; make I don't see any RC bug here. It's not as simple, unfortunately. The following