Hi! This is something that has been bothering me for a long time, so the other day I sat down and did a full license audit of the sources.
I've cleaned up the license headers and added missing ones, as a side effect “licensecheck -r dpkg” works better now. There's still lots of copyright statements missing, I have a patch around to add few, but every file takes time digging, and there's probably more urgent things to tend to. I'd like to get all GPL code unified as GPL-2+, eventually, though. The remaining issues, which might need asking people around are: * scripts/Dpkg/Vendor/Ubuntu.pm: Copyright © 2008 Colin Watson <[email protected]> This might actually be © Canonical Ltd.? * dselect/methods/multicd/*: GPL-2 only The dselect-multicd method from the dpkg-multicd package, states on its debian/copyright to be based on builtin methods from dselect, but then has a license of GPL-2 only, while dselect has GPL-2+. * dselect/methods/Debian/Dselect/Ftp.pm: No header dselect/methods/ftp/*: GPL (no version) The dselect-ftp method from the dpkg-ftp package, states on its debian/copyright file to be under the GPL-2 only. Ideally this would have the same terms as the rest of the code base, in case code needs to be reused for example. * lib/dpkg/utils.c: GPL-2 only This file started as GPL-2 only with commit a4f9322a6417e1683183ea by Wichert Akkerman, which only included cisdigit() and cisalpha(). Ian Jackson added a new cisspace() function in commit c91dc9f, and refactored the fgets_checked() and fgets_must() functions from src/filesdb.c (GPL-2+) in commit b95907e. I'm pretty certian he just didn't notice that license header, but to be sure he'd need to be asked for confirmation, The rest of the changes are trivial. The cis* functions are not a problem, I had reaimplemented them from scratch some time ago for peformance reasons. And thus will be dropped after that commit happens. * lib/dpkg/showpkg.c: GPL-2 only Used to be GPL-2+ with all commits © by Wichert Akkerman, until commit 6e1eb71ebffbbaca2e4bc when it changed to GPL-2 only. Changes afterwards by: Wichert Akkerman (d5e656d: trivial, removal of an include). Adam Heath (dbcb744: trivial, reorder an include; a1d9dc4: trivial, adding a 'void' and macroifying the unused dumpchain to avoid a warning, but I've just removed it instead, so it becomes trivial regardless). Frank Lichtenheld Pierre Habouzit (8ad47fe: trivial, adding a 'z' to a format string). Guillem Jover So I guess getting permission from Frank and myself and reverting 6e1eb71ebffbbaca2e4bc should be fine, here? regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
