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[bug#34644] [PATCH] gnu: Add xsane.


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: [bug#34644] [PATCH] gnu: Add xsane.
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:57:12 +0100

Diego (Nicola?),

Diego Nicola Barbato wrote:
+ (license licence:gpl2+))) ; lib/snprintf.c is under the ‘Artistic’ licence
The FSF lists the ‘Artistic’ license as a nonfree software license [0].
I am no expert, but this might be a problem.

Nor I. It's an interesting situation: snprintf.c seems to have been re-(dual-)licenced under both Artistic and GPL2+OpenSSL exception.

However, the version shipped with xsane is older (perhaps xsane itself is, even).

I guess we can just do what Trisquel does and replace it with a newer version. There's also some talk of a ’system snprintf’ that may or may not do the job without having to provide our own replacement.

Something to investigate.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense

Thanks,

T G-R

[1]: https://devel.trisquel.info/trisquel/package-helpers/merge_requests/12





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