Bug 1886822
| Summary: | License differs from actual | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Mikko Kortelainen <kordex> |
| Component: | gamin | Assignee: | Ondrej Holy <oholy> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Tomas Pelka <tpelka> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.6 | CC: | rfontana, tpelka, tpopela |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | 8.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| URL: | https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gamin/c/1ce2dba | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | gamin-0.1.10-32.el8 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2021-05-18 14:38:50 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The COPYING file says that gamin is LGPL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gamin/-/blob/master/COPYING. These codes were imported from gnome-vfs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gamin/-/commit/212f3b4ea110d5e788dad57c59f8d91e3e75a22d, where they were initially licensed as GPL for some reason. However, they were relicensed to LGPL just one month later after this import: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-vfs/-/commit/492955753e62071295adce824a2f0cf92d6f831e. So I suppose that this is just a bug and the codes should be relicensed in gamin as well. This is seemingly a known issue as per the comment in the Fedora spec file: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gamin/c/66ab86d34aa95b53f10179c0c92f7631b095b0c2. However, the problem is that gamin is dead upstream, thus the codes can't be changed there. So I am not sure what is the right solution at this point. I don't want to change the Licence field in the spec file as it is clearly a bug in source codes, however, fixing the source codes downstream also doesn't sound like a good idea to me... Let's add a comment into the spec file with facts from comment 1. I am going to prepare that change for Fedora first. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (Moderate: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1586 |
Description of problem: gamin/server/inotify-kernel.h and gamin/server/inotify-kernel.c clearly state that the code is GPLv2, however rpm packaging states that the library is LGPLv2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.1.9 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read the file 2. View the licensing information 3. Check package licensing information Actual results: /* Copyright (C) 2006 John McCutchan <john> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 2 for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ Expected results: /* * Copyrights et cetera * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ Additional info: