On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 05:40:29PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2026-07-13 at 12:54:40 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> Replacing strongly copyleft software with permissively licensed software > >> […] > >> That's part of why we are seeing these efforts to replace GnuPG with > >> Seqoia, […] for > >> generally anything GNU-licensed with anything BSD/Expat-licensed. > > > > This is again and still a wild mischaracterization. :/ > > > > <https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/[email protected]/> > > > > To (partially) quote: > > I'm not denying people have other arguments too, including your > technical/social arguments.
...and you did get to the bottom of Guillem's e-mail, right? :) > [Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes:] > > (BTW and AFAIR most of Sequoia components are either LGPL or GPL.) sq's debian/copyright file says LGPL-2+ and GPL-2+. And yes, that is also true of many of the Rust crates it depends on. And yes, I do realize that you also listed other examples, but the first one you picked (maybe because it has GNU in its name ;)), the one that has IMHO, so far, gained the widest traction, is invalid :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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