[Pkg-d-devel] dsss and libtango packages

[Peter De Wachter]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:28:12 +0200
Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com> wrote:

> oh!
> 
> Finally a good review to work with
> 
> Thanks a lot! :D

Heh, thanks :)

> > > As expected gdc on intrepid is messed up, i filled a LP bug
> > > #282400 . It works/compiles like a sharm on ubuntu 8.04.
> >
> > Odd, gdc-4.2 works on Debian.
> 
> Also in amd64?
> it work in 386 too here :D

Yes, I tested on amd64. But it seems the Debian package is newer
(0.25-4.2.4-3.1 vs 0.25-4.2.3-2ubuntu2).

> > His intentions are good, but his legalise is poor :) And for
> > distributors it's very important that all the legalise is clear and
> > unambiguous.
> >
> > The basic problem is that Walter specified version 1 of the GPL, but
> > didn't make clear that upgrading to newer versions is permitted.
> > And in copyright law, if something isn't explicitly permitted by
> > the copyright holder, it is not allowed. So integrating that code
> > into gcc (GPLv2-or-higher) was not technically legal.
> >
> > Though it looks like this doesn't really matter for dsss, as I can't
> > find any GPLv2-or-higher licensed code.
> 
> Ok. I'll talk with Walter Bright about this issue too :D

There's no reason to bother him again, it's already sorted out :) (It
was late and I guess I sucked at explaining it :)

If you need to use the dmd frontend code with GPLv2+ code, you can just
cite Walter's statement from #499927. If your package doesn't have
GPLv2+ code (and it looks like dsss doesn't), you don't have to do
anything special.

-- 
Peter De Wachter