Bug 567854

Summary:	cups 1.4 license conflict: GPL and BSD-With-Advertising
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Julius Davies <juliusdavies>
Component:	cups	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Julius Davies 2010-02-24 06:03:19 UTC

Description of problem:  cups 1.4 license conflict: GPL and BSD-With-Advertising

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Cups 1.4 and previous have this problem.
Cups 1.5 (trunk) is fixed.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download Cups 1.4 source code

2.  Notice the BSD-With-Advertising license in the following three files:
backend/scsi.c
backend/scsi-irix.c
backend/scsi-linux.c
  
3.  Notice that UC-Berkeley nor NetBSD are copyright holder, so code cannot be relicensed to remove advertising clause. ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FAQ#What.27s_the_deal_with_the_BSD_with_advertising_license.3F )




Additional info:

Doesn't apply in Cups Trunk (presumably Cups 1.5):
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3500

Cups won't fix in Cups 1.4, but encourage distributions to remove scsi*.c if so desired:
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3509

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2010-02-24 12:38:00 UTC

I've asked for direction from Fedora legal on this.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2010-03-01 15:39:26 UTC

These files only link against the LGPLv2 parts of cups.