Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Julien, Julien Cristau [2011-01-18 12:01 +0100]: That doesn't address Riddell's point. You're mixing GPL 2 (poppler) with GPL 2+ (PDF reflow plugin) with GPL 3 (calibre). I don't think that works. As I see no way to sensibly untangle this for squeeze, I propose to upload a version to

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49:38 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello Julien, Julien Cristau [2011-01-18 12:01 +0100]: That doesn't address Riddell's point. You're mixing GPL 2 (poppler) with GPL 2+ (PDF reflow plugin) with GPL 3 (calibre). I don't think that works. As I see no way to

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Julien, Julien Cristau [2011-01-25 13:00 +0100]: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49:38 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: As I see no way to sensibly untangle this for squeeze, I propose to upload a version to t-p-u which removes the pdfreflow plugin. I still need to build it, as otherwise the

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-18 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 07:58:26 -0600, Martin Pitt wrote: Julien Cristau [2011-01-14 11:05 +0100]: It doesn't sound like this has been addressed? How do you mean in particular? The PDF reflow plugin now is GPL 2 or later, so it should be compatible with poppler again? That doesn't

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 21:17:33 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote: The question is if the plugin is a derived work of both the GPL 2 only libpoppler and the GPL 3 only application. Since it can't exist without either then it almost certainly is. And since the licences are incompatible that

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-14 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Adam, Adam D. Barratt [2011-01-13 22:46 +]: Does this change apply retrospectively, or just to the new upstream release? Formally only to the new upstream release, so I'll try my luck first with asking for a freeze exception. Martin -- Martin Pitt|

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-14 Thread Martin Pitt
Julien Cristau [2011-01-14 11:05 +0100]: It doesn't sound like this has been addressed? How do you mean in particular? The PDF reflow plugin now is GPL 2 or later, so it should be compatible with poppler again? It hasn't been addressed in testing yet. While I have you here, what do you think

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 18:29 -0600, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello Karsten, debbug609581.609581.iri...@recursor.net [2011-01-11 18:54 +0100]: The current source from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux at http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src (tarball) has an updated COPYING file, which

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-12 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Karsten, debbug609581.609581.iri...@recursor.net [2011-01-11 18:54 +0100]: The current source from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux at http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src (tarball) has an updated COPYING file, which contains: =COPYING= Files:

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-11 Thread debbug609581 . 609581 . iridos
The current source from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux at http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src (tarball) has an updated COPYING file, which contains: =COPYING= Files: src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/*.h,*.cpp License: GPL-2 or later The full text of the GPL is

Bug#609581: Incompatible licences

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Riddell
The question is if the plugin is a derived work of both the GPL 2 only libpoppler and the GPL 3 only application. Since it can't exist without either then it almost certainly is. And since the licences are incompatible that makes it illegal to distribute. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email