[Bug 989847] Review Request: mingw-plibc - MinGW package for plibc

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989847

Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl> ---
I'm afraid Kevin's observation is correct. The printf.c in plibc does contain
traces of dietlibc code. This can also be seen in the comments at the beginning
of
http://plibc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/plibc/trunk/plibc/src/printf.c?revision=139&view=markup
which contain this comment:

/* Stolen from Felix von Leitners "diet libc" 0.28 */

I didn't check the scanf.c in plibc but I guess the same also applies there.

This looks like a licensing violation by plibc as it contains pieces of code
from dietlibc which is GPLv2 while the plibc library itself is LGPLv2+. Before
we can allow this package in Fedora the offending code has to be removed
upstream.

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