Request 639357 (accepted)

This request supersedes: request 636110 (Show diff)

Overview

Request 639357 accepted

Added patch removes the Apache licensed library, which should solve the legal issue.

Created by cornelisbb over 5 years ago
In state accepted
Supersedes 636110

Submit musescore

Comments for request 639357 1
Comments for request 636110 2

Staging Bot (staging-bot) - over 5 years ago

reviewer

@dimstar_suse, @factory-repo-checker: review reminder

Cor Blom (cornelisbb) - over 5 years ago

author source maintainer

What is expected from me as submitter now? Is someone going to look further into the legal details? Or not?

If I understand correctly musescore needs to change its license to GPL-3, or remove the apache licensed code for it to be included in the distribution. So I inform the developers and see what they do?

Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) - over 5 years ago

reviewer

Here is my interpretation of the rejection note:

The "mscore" binary contains both the code from the mscore/ directory (GPL-2.0-only) and also contains libdiff_match_patch.a from thirdparty/diff/ (Apache-2.0). This is incompatible according to licensedigger.

As a packager, somehow throw out the diff_match code while still making it all build, or
Upstream needs to change the mscore code to "GPL-2.0-or-later" (or outright GPL-3.0/GPL-3.0-or-later).