Re: Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Sven Bartscher
Hi, Am 15.05.2018 um 20:04 schrieb Walter Landry: > Sven Bartscher writes: >> As there are some problems[1] with the compiled shared library as >> distributed by upstream (and because compiling things ourselves is >> always nicer) I would like to rebuild the

Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings, (Please excuse if the below analysis is partly or even completely wrong, reading about licensing and copyright issues often makes me quite confused) I'm the maintainer of the package dwarf-fortress in non-free. The package as a whole is clearly non-free as the license states that „you

Re: Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings, Am 15.05.2018 um 20:04 schrieb Walter Landry: > Sven Bartscher writes: >> The package also contains a shared library called libgraphics.so and the >> corresponding source code. The library links to (among others) SDL and >> GTK which are licensed

Re: Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 15 May 2018 at 19:22:54 +0200, Sven Bartscher wrote: > I'm the maintainer of the package dwarf-fortress in non-free. The > package as a whole is clearly non-free as the license states that „you > may redistribute the *unmodified* binary and accompanying files“ and the > source code to the

Re: Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Walter Landry
Sven Bartscher writes: > Greetings, > > (Please excuse if the below analysis is partly or even completely wrong, > reading about licensing and copyright issues often makes me quite confused) > > I'm the maintainer of the package dwarf-fortress in non-free. The

Re: Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Walter Landry
Sven Bartscher writes: > Hi, > > Am 15.05.2018 um 20:04 schrieb Walter Landry: >> Sven Bartscher writes: >>> As there are some problems[1] with the compiled shared library as >>> distributed by upstream (and because compiling things

Re: Unclear license information regarding copyleft

2018-05-15 Thread Sven Bartscher
Am 15.05.2018 um 20:45 schrieb Walter Landry: > Sven Bartscher writes: >> Hi, >> >> Am 15.05.2018 um 20:04 schrieb Walter Landry: >>> Sven Bartscher writes: As there are some problems[1] with the compiled shared library as