Hi, I am packaging haproxy for inclusion in openSUSE / SLES, and we have been packaging it as being under the GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-2.1+, that is, GPL version 2 or higher. However, legal just sent me a message saying that they discovered that the file ip_tproxy.h is under a different license, being only GPL v2:
Quoting: > The spec file for haproxy states that the package is GPL-2.0+ (i.e. > "or later") licensed. A file in the package appears, however, to be > GPL-2.0 (i.e. "only"). The file > is /haproxy-1.4.24/include/import/ip_tproxy.h and states: > > /* > * Transparent proxy support for Linux/iptables > * > * Copyright (c) 2002-2004 BalaBit IT Ltd. > * Author: Balázs Scheidler > * > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > modify > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as > * published by the Free Software Foundation. > * > */ > > Is this file actually used? If so, there is a liklihood that the > entire derived work (the compiled binary of which this is part) would > need to be licensed under the GPL-2.0, not GPL-2.0+. There are some > exceptions > - and this file may be one because of its brevity and because it > contains mostly only defines etc. (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853815) Is Balázs on this list, or does anyone know how I can reach him to ask about the license? -- // Kristoffer Grönlund // [email protected]
