Bug 877517 - bogus License: tag for libjpeg-turbo
Summary: bogus License: tag for libjpeg-turbo
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libjpeg-turbo
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Tkac
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-16 18:29 UTC by Tom Lane
Modified: 2013-07-03 03:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-12-04 14:25:09 UTC
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Description Tom Lane 2012-11-16 18:29:09 UTC
Description of problem:
libjpeg-turbo.spec says "License: wxWidgets" which appears to me to be unrelated to reality.  The original libjpeg code had an MIT-ish license which the Fedora license crew saw fit to give its own license code to, so our old libjpeg package had "License: IJG".  So far as I can make out from README-turbo.txt, the current developers have no intention of changing the license, and in any case they'd have no right to remove the original license statement.  So I think it should still be "License: IJG", or at least should include that.  And how did wxWidgets enter the discussion at all?  I see no reference to that in the distributed tarball.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libjpeg-turbo-1.2.1-4.fc19

Comment 1 Tom Lane 2012-11-17 16:03:41 UTC
BTW, so far as I can tell from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing wxWidgets uses an LGPL-derived license.  That makes this labelling not only a misattribution but legally incorrect.  libjpeg has never been distributed under GPL-ish terms.

Comment 2 Adam Tkac 2012-12-04 14:25:09 UTC
I changed licejse to IJG.

Fixed in libjpeg-turbo-1.2.1-5.fc19


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