Subject: Re: [bug#54457] [PATCH 4/9] gnu: Add libnetfilter-queue

From: fesoj000 <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:49:33 +0100

On 3/20/22 12:23 AM, Maxime Devos wrote:
> fesoj000 schreef op za 19-03-2022 om 01:47 [+0100]:
>> +   (description "libnetfilter_queue is a userspace library providing an API to
>> +packets that have been queued by the kernel packet filter. It is is part of a
>> +system that deprecates the old ip_queue / libipq mechanism.")
>> +   (home-page "https://netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/index.html")
>> +   (license license:gpl1)))
> 
> IIRC, glibc is LGPL2+. Would that make libnetfilter-queue license-
> incompatible with glibc?
I have only very limited knowledge of the interoperability of licenses. But to tackle
this specific problem, the library actually is GPLv2 [0]. I will check all the libraries
again to make sure the licenses are up-to-date.

[0] https://git.netfilter.org/libnetfilter_queue/tree/COPYING