Bug#572982: EPL + LGPL compatiblity?

Torsten Werner twerner at debian.org
Sat Apr 10 20:25:57 UTC 2010


Hi Pablo,

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> wrote:
> It looks like Aelitis/Vuze is the copyright owner of most of the GPL'ed code,
> so the quickest way to solve the problem may be to ask them to add a license
> exception to allow combining their code with the co-distributed EPL and
> CPL-licensed sources. I hope others will correct me if I am wrong, but it seems
> that the CPL does not forbid the program to be linked with works under other
> licenses, so exception is only needed on the GPL side.

is there any progress regarding the license exception...

> According to debian/copyright, this leaves two files to either replace or get
> relicensed by their authors:

and the relicensing?

Cheers,
Torsten





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