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

Thu Dec 29 21:20:28 CET 2011

Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 29/12/11 16:20 did gyre and gimble:
+>    
+>> 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...
+>>
+>> please, i need comments and opinions ASAP!
+>>      
+> 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
+
+-- 
+André
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