[Mageia-dev] License issues with readline (MariaDB)

[andre999]

Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 29/12/11 16:20 did gyre and gimble:
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>> Op donderdag 29 december 2011 15:28:58 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
>>
>> as suspected, MariaDB cannot license as GPLv2+
>>
>> ok, so what do we do:
>>
>> A) follow upstream, and use bundled GPLv2 readline to link static against
>> B) go back to readline-v5
>> C) repackage debian's version of readline-gplv2 (afaik its a v5 maintained)
>> D) ignore all this legal crap and just link shared with readline v6
>> E) try to use libedit, but the spec files contain buildConflicts with it, so i'm
>> guessing it's for a good reason.
>>
>>
>> debian does B)
>> fedora does either A) or D), but definately static linked
>>
>>
>> tbh: even though it's not right, my preference goes to D)
>>
>> my mariadb latest fix is just waiting to be pushed...
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>> please, i need comments and opinions ASAP!
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> I understand the desire to do D, but it really, really should not be
> done like that. If we cannot adhere to our own licenses, then how do we
> expect any traditionally non-foss people to do it? We have to lead by
> example.
>
> So personally I'd go with A and if/when another readline related GPLv3
> issue crops up in the future, then we switch over to C.
>
> Col
>
>    
+1

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André