On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:17:02AM +0100, Tomasz Kojm said: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:21:34 +0000 > Stephen Gran <st...@lobefin.net> wrote: > > > I've just received the bug report below via the Debian bug tracking > > system. There's obviously not a whole lot I can do about it myself, but > > I just thought I'd bring it to your attention. > > Yeah, we got this information as well: > > https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1366
As I understand the issue, the problem is that the GPLv2 does not allow for the extra restrictions imposed by the LGPLv3, and this is what make the two licenses incompatible (i.e., the problem is solely in clamav's court, not GMP's). So, I think that if the clamav team could make a public license excemption for this linking, the problems for distributors goes away. It would be great if it was in the licensing statement in the release, but failing that, a mail to the mailing list would probably be enough for me to convince our archive administrators that it's ok. This of course assumes that the clamav team holds all the copyright for the code that links GMP, which, given that the #include gmp.h is in the library, might be slightly difficult. If you guys don't have the copyright, or can't grant the excemption for other reasons, distributors like myself will most likely have to build without gmp going forward, which seem unfortunate. Cheers, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Chess tonight. | | st...@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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