About debian/patches/* licenses

2022-12-01 Thread 野崎耕平
Hi, In researching the licenses of the dependent libraries of the programs I created, I noticed that some packages could be non-GPL library become GPL library by patch. * The original project is not GPL * There is a mention in the copyright that debian/* is GPL * Patches to the library source

Re: linuxcnc licensing issues

2022-12-01 Thread Adam Ant
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2022 at 2:20 PM > From: "Mihai Moldovan" > To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: linuxcnc licensing issues > > Hello Adam > > > Thank you for pointing out such issues and providing context. > > * On 12/1/22 13:38, Adam Ant wrote: > > Large portions

Re: linuxcnc licensing issues

2022-12-01 Thread Mihai Moldovan
Hello Adam Thank you for pointing out such issues and providing context. * On 12/1/22 13:38, Adam Ant wrote: > Large portions of the core code base are labeled as LGPL-2 - There is no such > licence. It is either GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 Technically, there is a LGPL 2.0 license, although deprecated,

Re: linuxcnc licensing issues

2022-12-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 01:38:28PM +0100, Adam Ant wrote: > [Stripping HTML formatting where I see it - could you please use plain text] > > Large portions of the core code base are labeled as LGPL-2 - There is no such > > licence. It is either GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 > > A bit of history: > >

linuxcnc licensing issues

2022-12-01 Thread Adam Ant
Linuxcnc - https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/linuxcnc   Large portions of the core code base are labeled as LGPL-2 - There is no such licence. It is either GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1     A bit of history: Linuxcnc was forked from a National Institue of Standards & Technology project called