#979833 libtiff4: Document that Debian build is GPL due to dependency on libjbig0 (?)

Package:
libtiff5
Source:
tiff
Description:
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library
Submitter:
Daniel Schepler
Date:
2021-01-11 19:15:04 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#979833#5
Date:
2021-01-11 19:12:00 UTC
From:
To:
Package: libtiff5
Version: 4.2.0-1
Severity: wishlist

I'm wondering whether it would make sense to document in
/usr/share/doc/libtiff5/copyright that even though the tiff source
package in general is under a BSD/MIT style license, the Debian build
is necessarily GPL due to linking against the GPL library libjbig0.

On the other hand, similar reasoning would suggest going through all
the reverse dependencies of libtiff4 to see what other packages would
need to put in similar disclaimers - I would suppose probably at least
all Gtk and Qt based packages would be affected.  But that would be a
huge and invasive task; so I'm not sure whether this request makes
sense or not.