On Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:13:04 PM EDT Richard Fontana wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 01:54:52PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > > On Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:32:14 PM EDT Richard Fontana wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The README file in the audit userspace package says: > > > LICENSE > > > ======= > > > The audit daemon is released as GPL'd code. The > > > audit daemon's libraries libaudit.* and libauparse.* are released > > > under LGPL so that it may be linked with 3rd party software. > > > > > > However don't these libraries contain code from this file > > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/lib/strsplit. > > > c > > > which states its license is GPLv2+? > > > > Yes, that looks like a copy and paste mistake. Thanks for pointing that > > out. Anything in: > > > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/lib/ > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/auparse/ > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/bindings/ > > > > is intended to LGPL. Would replacing the comment at the beginning of the > > file be sufficient to fix this issue? > > It may depend on the history of the file. If you were the only person > who contributed to it, yes. But if anyone else contributed to it, and > let's say the contributions were not copyrighted by Red Hat, and the > contributions were sufficiently nontrivial, then maybe we'd have to > get permission from such other contributors to change the indicated > license of the file.
OK. Good to know. I am the sole contributor to that file. I also checked and fixed some new files in auparse/ to which I am also the sole contributor at the same time. Everything is good in git and the next release should take care of this issue. Thanks for noticing this. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit