Hello Bastian, many thanks for your report. Really appreciate the extra detail. The original one totally slipped through cracks.
Best, Antonin * Bastian Germann <bastiangerm...@fishpost.de> [2021-10-06 20:36] wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:47:22 +0100 Bastian Germann wrote: > > Package: atari800 > > Version: 4.1.0-3 > > Severity: normal > > > > atari800's copyright file claims it to be GPLv2. In most source files, > > the license text has an "or later" clause which is actually needed > > linking the program with readline (GPLv3), because GPLv3 and GPLv2-only > > are incompatible. So please clarify the license situation in the > > copyright file. > > The program depends on proprietary ROMs for normal operation, so this is > problematic for GPL by itself. While atari800 itself is most probably > unproblematic because it is designed for that and one could argue that is an > implicit grant to use it with the proprietary ROMs, the readline dependency > is not okay, independent from the license version. > > Please switch to BSD-licensed libeditreadline-dev as a build dependency > which is a drop-in replacement for libreadline-dev. > > You should also explain the contrib status in d/copyright according to Policy > 12.5. >
