[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#585030: cups: scsi backend has BSD with advertising license

[Kenshi Muto]

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Package: cups
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: normal

As upstream STR #3509 ( http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3509 ),
backend/scsi.c has BSD with advertising license may conflict
with GPL.

upstream wrote in that STR:
  "Well, since we are the copyright holder we can say that the BSD
  license in the SCSI backend sources is compatible, just as we say you
  can mix CUPS with OpenSSL - the CUPS license is GPL2+LGPL2+exceptions."
  "In any case, since a) the SCSI backend is never used, b) we have
  removed it from CUPS trunk, and c) Linux distributors can always
  remove the SCSI backend from the list of legacy backends that are
  built and installed with the current releases of CUPS, I'm going to
  just dupe this bug against STR #3500."

So I think Debian (and Ubuntu) CUPS has two options.

A. Ask an official note about GPL/BSD exception to upstream and add it
   debian/copyright file or somewhere.
B. Exclude scsi backend binary from binary debs.

Thanks,
- -- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org
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