Bug 488802 - RPM license advertisement for libsepol indicates GPL rather than LGPL
Summary: RPM license advertisement for libsepol indicates GPL rather than LGPL
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libsepol
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: BaseOS QE
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-05 19:37 UTC by Eric Brower
Modified: 2009-09-02 09:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 09:36:56 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:1273 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE libsepol bug fix update 2009-09-01 09:34:59 UTC

Description Eric Brower 2009-03-05 19:37:54 UTC
Description of problem:
The libsepol RPM indicates a license of "GPL" although the software claims a license of LGPL:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?pid=389020
or
# rpm -qi libsepol
  Name        : libsepol                     Relocations: /usr
  Version     : 1.15.2                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
  Release     : 1.el5                         Build Date: Tue 14 Nov 2006 07:21:38 AM PST
  Install Date: Tue 29 Jan 2008 06:09:03 PM PST      Build Host: hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com
  Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: libsepol-1.15.2-1.el5.src.rpm
  Size        : 241432                           License: GPL
  Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 17 Jan 2007 12:33:21 PM PST, Key ID 5326810137017186
  Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
  Summary     : SELinux binary policy manipulation library
  Description : ...

ChangeLog file within the source RPM contains:
  1.5.10 2005-05-19
    * License changed to LGPL v2.1, see COPYING.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libsepol-1.15.2.1.el5 (not sure this matters)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -q libsepol --queryformat="%{License}\n"
2. Check ChangeLog in SRPM sources
3.
  
Actual results:
RPM shows GPL as License version
ChangeLog indicates LGPL version, not GPL

Expected results:
RPM should show LGPL as license version

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2009-03-05 20:18:07 UTC
I have fixed this in Rawhide/F11

libsepol-2.0.34-1.fc11

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2009-04-09 14:41:55 UTC
Fixed in libsepol-1.15.2-2.el5

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:36:56 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1273.html


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