Bug#756451: RFS: libcgroup/0.41 [ITA] -- control and monitor control groups
On 2014-08-03 12:11, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> debian/copyright:
>> - src/pam/pam_cgroup.c is dual-licensed BSD and LGPL 2.1, not BSD or
>> GPL 2. That also makes the GPL-2 license block in d/copyright
>> obsolete.
>
> Hm... while you're right that something is off, the way I read it, it's
> mostly (BSD or GPL-2), to which LGPL-2.1 code was added. Therefore, I
> updated the License specification and added a standalone block for the
> LGPL-2.1.
>
> Side note: it's unclear from the license text and context of this file
> which version of the GPL is spoken of, but tracing the original code it
> can be seen that it really is the GPL-2.
Addendum: I found it strange that the additions to this file were
described as LGPL-2.1, whereas the rest was supposed to be LGPL-2.1+.
It turns out that everything else has always been LGPL-2.1, too.
Upstream ships the full license text, but the individual source files
omit the "[...] or any later version" qualification.
As this is a more serious error, I filed #756915 to document this properly.
A new package with a fix has been prepared at the previously posted
locations.
Christian
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