[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#647529: chromium-browser: Possible mix of incompatible licenses

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze6
Severity: serious
Justification: Possible incompatible licenses


Hi!

Some parts of chromium-browser seem to be shipped under the "Microsoft
Permissive License (Ms-PL)".  In #647526 it is claimed, that that license
is considered incompatible with the GPL, which is used by some other parts
of chromium.


I must confess, that I haven't read the acutal license text,
yet, and need to catch a train, so I can't say, if that's true or not.
However, I thought the problem could be important, so better open a bug
report, so we don't forget about it later.


Best regards,
  Alexander


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.9
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE at euro)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash