Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:01:49 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> writes:

>> I'm not denying people have other arguments too, including your
>> technical/social arguments.
>
> ...and you did get to the bottom of Guillem's e-mail, right? :)
>
>> [Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes:]
>> > (BTW and AFAIR most of Sequoia components are either LGPL or GPL.)
>
> sq's debian/copyright file says LGPL-2+ and GPL-2+. And yes, that is
> also true of many of the Rust crates it depends on.

Seqoia PGP is LGPLv2+ after requests, I believe from RedHat and maybe
others, but I don't know the full story.  It first used GPLv3+ and then
GPLv2+ and then LGPLv2+:

https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/commits/main/LICENSE.txt

Where did you read that sq's debian/copyright says GPL-2+?  Compare:

https://sources.debian.org/src/rust-sequoia-sq/1.3.1-11/debian/copyright

/Simon

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