[Debian-med-packaging] rgeos Debian package rejected because of GPL incompatible gpclib

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Roger,

I intended to package rgeos for Debian since it would enable the test
suite of some other package.  Unfortunately rgeos contains
R/Rgpc_funcs.R which uses gpclib that has a license:

   Free for non-commercial use; commercial use prohibited (see the files
   `gpc.c' and `gpc.h' for details)

So how could this be GPL-2?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:00:10PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> according to http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/ the gpclib needs a special license for commercial use.
> 
> So how do you know that rgeos/R/Rgpc_funcs.R is under GPL-2?
> 
>   Thorsten
> 
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