Package: calibre Followup-For: Bug #609581 fwiw, some background history and modern day reading..
- poppler is a fork of xpdf, which (apparently) at the time of forking was GPL2 only. thus poppler became GPL2 only as well. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/README http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/README-XPDF - in the mean time, xpdf, under the same author/company, and in the advent of GPL3, has now become GPL2+. author contact: Derek B. Noonburg <derekn foolabs com> but that little "+" was missing at the time of poppler forking. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.02-12/xpdf.copyright - poppler asks that all contributions be given as GPL2+. so they are thinking about it. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/README.contributors (contact info for poppler given on that page) so we have all actors and code moved to GPL2+ in principal, only the pedantic twists of copyright law to satisfy. I've seen worse. two easy ways out: - poppler sync to a newer GPL2+ release of xpdf (not suitable in squeeze timeframe) - someone, preferably a poppler dev, approach Derek and ask for a re/dual-license of his (c)2004 xpdf as GPL2+. Then poppler adjust their READMEs as needed, reissue a no-other-change tarball, the package gets rebuilt, and we can all get on with more productive pursuits. - as noted, calibre upstream has synced to GPL2+ as well. again, rebuild as needed against the 0-diff GPL2+ release of calibre, or just ask calibre upstream for a relicense/reissue of the older code used in the .deb under the GPL2+. I ack the problem, but it all seems a little academic.. I suppose the clearest path is for calibre to pressure poppler to prepare+release a clean & clear GPL2+ cut so this problem doesn't come up again in future. but easiest solution seems a few emails from the authors saying "+ is fine" appented to the shipped COPYING file(s). regards, Hamish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
