[Bug 1297821] Review Request: qlcplus - DMX light controller software

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297821



--- Comment #10 from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> ---
Lots of issues discussed, but let's concentrate on the mongoose part, because
it seems most serious.

webaccess/src/mongoose.c is GPLv2 (not GPLv2+). This seems intentional, part of
dual licensing scheme by cesanta. Other sources are ASL 2.0. Those two licenses
are incompatible, in the meaning that it is not possible to distribute the
resulting binary and satisfy both licenses ["Despite our best efforts, the FSF
has never considered the Apache License to be compatible with GPL version 2"
from http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html.
"Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2, because it
has some requirements that are not in that GPL version." from
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2].

Seperating the code into a library does not change anything, according to FSF
[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL].

Upstream is apparently trying to fix the licensing mess, so there's some hope.
But things currently stand, this package cannot be added to Fedora.

I'll comment some more on the github issue.

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