Bug 725931

Summary: Fix GPL v3 dependency in autofs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Ian Kent <ikent>
Component: autofsAssignee: Ian Kent <ikent>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: yanfu,wang <yanwang>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.1CC: ikent, rfontana
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: autofs-5.0.5-35 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Patch - replace GPLv3 code none

Description Ian Kent 2011-07-27 02:25:15 UTC 
Description of problem:

Sorry, I had forgotten about this for RHEL-6.2 but I think
it needs to be considered.

autofs has (inadvertently) used some code from samba which
is licensed under GPLv3 which makes autofs implicitly GPLv3.
This isn't too bad since the autofs license statement reads
as "GPLv2 or later".

We have verified autofs as a GPLv2 product which is now
incorrect.

The copyright holder refused to allow autofs to use this
code and retain GPLv2 status, probably because the GPLv3
license doesn't allow it but certainly because he believes
in the GPLv3 license, which is fair enough. I didn't want
to re-license autofs without due consideration so the code
was re-written.

This bug has been raised to replace that code with the GPLv2
licensed re-write.
Comment 1 Ian Kent 2011-07-27 02:28:06 UTC 
Created attachment 515400 [details]
Patch - replace GPLv3 code

Upstream patch which replaces the GPLv3 code in question.
Comment 3 yanfu,wang 2011-09-08 03:14:38 UTC 
bz490476 passed when run autofs regression test suite:
i386: https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/126800
x86_64: https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/126801
s390x: https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/126802
ppc64: https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/jobs/126803
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 17:59:20 UTC 
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, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1723.html