Bug#838244: hurd: license incompatibility between ext2fs (GPLv2-only) and libparted (GPLv3-or-later)

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 02:29:20 +0300, wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > But storeio can be used as an intermediate between the two. > > "storeio --store-type=part 1:device:hd0" apparently supports > file_get_storage_info and reports the partition

Bug#838244: hurd: license incompatibility between ext2fs (GPLv2-only) and libparted (GPLv3-or-later)

Samuel Thibault writes: > But storeio can be used as an intermediate between the two. "storeio --store-type=part 1:device:hd0" apparently supports file_get_storage_info and reports the partition boundaries there, so the I/O would not have to go through the storeio

Bug#838244: hurd: license incompatibility between ext2fs (GPLv2-only) and libparted (GPLv3-or-later)

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, on Mon 19 Sep 2016 01:29:17 +0300, wrote: > Until that is implemented, the partition-table support in > libstore could be disabled altogether, because GNU Mach currently > provides a named device for each partition. But the installer does not use it, for flexibility. But

Bug#838244: hurd: license incompatibility between ext2fs (GPLv2-only) and libparted (GPLv3-or-later)

Package: hurd Version: 1:0.8.git20160826-1 Severity: serious File: /hurd/ext2fs.static The ext2fs translator contains GPLv2-only code copied from Linux, but it is linked (through libstore) with libparted, which is GPLv3-or-later since 2007. This combination violates at least one of the licenses.