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

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:31:40 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 08:01:49PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 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

...so all strong-copyleft licenses, from the start.

> 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

Yeah, sorry, I should have read more carefully, only the Debian
packaging uses GPL-2+, not the upstream source, but I believe
that is sort of irrelevant to the discussion here.

G'luck,
Peter

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