On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 07:12:19PM +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 06:47:37PM +0100, Jan Pokorný wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > during latest reviews of packages building on core cluster > > infrastructure, it turned out there is a frequented (viral?) issue > > with source files declaring unusual licence: GPLv2.1+. > > Yes, I'd say that it's all coming from a single source. I suspect > that nobody's looking at the license, just copies another source > file from the same project. Anyway, that's what I did in booth. > > Who created the first file with this non-existent license is > anybody's guess. It could probably be traced, but I doubt that > it'd help in any way.
Actually it might. I think that what happened was this: in the early days of heartbeat, way back when, source code got "batch tagged" with the license statement: http://hg.linux-ha.org/heartbeat-STABLE_3_0/rev/4a67fde00b0b#l1.10 2000/07/26 05:17:18 Most stuff got tagged with the LGPL 2.1. Some time later, someone noticed that in some cases, a "program" is not a "library", and tried to re-tag e.g. "api_test.c" with the GPL 2, but without properly taking the actual suggested GPL 2 stanza, but by simply dropping "Lesser" and changing "library" to "software". http://hg.linux-ha.org/heartbeat-STABLE_3_0/rev/bc508513c4dc#l2.10 2000/08/31 05:23:36 :-( Both changes predate the GPLv3 by seven years. >From there it propagated to ipfail.c and attrd.c, which both became *the* template files to start from when writing daemons and extensions using the API. Developers quickly browse their "template", their "auto-correct" filter reads "GPL 2", which they are content with, and in good faith they hack away. I think it is safe to assume that any developer copying from there meant to "stay in project" regarding the licensing. So I move to change it to GPLv2+, for everything that is a "program", and LGPLv2.1 for everything that may be viewed as a libraray. At least that's how I will correct the wording in the affected files in the heartbeat mercurial. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Keeping the Digital World Running : DRBD -- Heartbeat -- Corosync -- Pacemaker : R&D, Integration, Ops, Consulting, Support DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developers@clusterlabs.org http://clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/developers