Bug#979094: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency
On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:36:05 +0100 Bastian Germann <bastiangermann@fishpost.de> wrote:
This package depends on libreadline8 which is GPL-3+ licensed. According
to debian/copyright parts of your package are GPL-2-only licensed. If
that is also (transitively) the case for the binaries that link with
libreadline.so.8 it might be legally problematic (see
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility).
The covered binary is /usr/bin/jack_transport, which links to libjack.so.0. I leave it to
the package maintainer to check if these two binaries contain code that is covered by
GPL-2-only or one of the unclear GPL-2~either or GPL-2~or.
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