GPL3 Re: packaging

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:11:15PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> The X package that I downloaded just revealed a bug in gnutar (GPLV2)  
> that is fixed in gnutar (GPLV3), but we can't trivially update to the  
> new gnutar to address this bug because of the license issue, nor can  
> we even look at the code changes... so we need to fix the bug in the  
> GPLV2 version.  I was just asking what version of tar was used to  
> create the tarball, so I could reproduce the bug without relying on  
> outside tarballs.

You don't *bundle* gnutar with the distribution files you ship, do you?

As long as you do not, I don't see what the license on the tar program
has to do with the issue; even if someone construes you to be
"requiring" the newer tar to unpackage the program, you're still not
"distributing" it, so what license it's under should not bear on the
license of the package, correct?

Cheers,
-- jra
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