Bug 840896

Summary:	GeoIP package has wrong License
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
Component:	GeoIP	Assignee:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jan Safranek 2012-07-17 14:22:51 UTC

md5.c is licensed under GPLv2+ and it seems to be linked at least to libGeoIPUpdate. Therefore everything what links this library must be GPLv2+ too.

Upstream COPYING file mentions this exception.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
GeoIP-1.4.8-2.1.fc18

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-10-22 14:21:09 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Paul Howarth 2012-10-22 15:16:49 UTC

How about I change the package's license tag to "LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+", with most of the package being "LGPLv2+" and just %{_libdir}/libGeoIPUpdate* being "GPLv2+"?

That would reflect upstream's licenses whilst creating minimal impact on the rest of the distribution, since all current GeoIP users in Fedora are linked against libGeoIP but not libGeoIPUpdate.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-10-22 20:57:24 UTC

GeoIP-1.4.8-4.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/GeoIP-1.4.8-4.fc18

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-10-23 06:49:00 UTC

Package GeoIP-1.4.8-4.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing GeoIP-1.4.8-4.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16711/GeoIP-1.4.8-4.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 16:04:29 UTC

GeoIP-1.4.8-4.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.