Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 947693
License tag seems to be incorrect
Last modified: 2014-01-21 16:28:34 EST
The current license tag for the ntop package is: License: GPLv2 and BSD with advertising This seems to be wrong, because it doesn't take into account the nDPI source code. All the source files in nDPI/src contain a LGPLv3+ header. So, it seems to me that the license tag should be: License: GPLv2 and LGPLv3+ and BSD with advertising (no idea whether that is even possible) However, the home page of nDPI states: "Open and Extensible GPLv3 Deep Packet Inspection Library." -> http://www.ntop.org/products/ndpi/ So that's all a bit confusing. :-/ I'm opening the bug against Fedora 17, as it is the earliest version which is impacted, but the same is valid for Fedora 18, 19 and Rawhide.
And here's more: - the bulk of ntop seems to be GPLv2+, rather than GPLv2 - html/jqplot/excanvas.js is Apache Licence 2.0 - countmin.c is CC-By-NC - the bundled jquery and jqplot in the html/ folder are "MIT or GPL", but they also mention CC-By in some copyright headers. - protocols.c is under "GPLv2+ and BSD with advertising" The last one is a bit worrying, as the Fedora Licensing page says that BSD with advertising is incompatible with GPL: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses I feel like I've just opened a can of worms here. :-/
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I should probably have done that when I opened this bug report, but better late than never. Blocking FE-Legal.
Okay, so protocols.c is not an issue, because the BSD with advertising is (C) The Regents of the University of California, and they have universally waived the advertising clause for all BSD licensed works they hold copyright too. countmin.* (and prng.*) were relicensed by the author to GPLv2+ in a later version, so I've patched those in. The BSD with advertising files are the .dat files for Geolocation, but they've been relicensed to CC-BY-SA. The Jquery files are marked as (MIT or GPLv2+) but upstream jquery has relicensed all works to just MIT. Even if they had not, if there was a compat concern, Fedora would have chosen the MIT option. But, in case someone wanted to use the jquery bits under GPLv2, I've left it in the tag. html/jqplot/excanvas.js is ASL 2.0, but it is not a GPL compat issue because it is not linked to anything. nDPI is LGPLv3+ (and it is linked to ntop, which is GPLv2+) This means that practically, the ntop combined work is GPLv3+ but since this is already confusing, I will not simplify it down in the license tag. This leaves us with the correct license tag of: License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv3+ and (MIT or GPLv2) and ASL 2.0 and BSD with advertising and CC-BY-SA Which is fine for Fedora. :) I've fixed this (and updated things to 5.0.1 and the latest geoip databases) in rawhide.
Whoops. I got that license tag wrong. I've fixed it in rawhide, the BSD with advertising is gone. :)