FC12: rsync-3.0.6: GPLv2 and GPLv3 and GPLv3+ ?

[Julius Davies]

rsync's RPM says it is gplv3+.

But....

rsync-3.0.6/getgroups.c;GPLv3
rsync-3.0.6/testhelp/maketree.py;GPLv2

The rest of the source is mostly GPLv3+ with some ZLIB.


The "maketree.py" file doesn't seem too important.  I ran it for fun
by just typing:

python maketree.py

And now I have 688MB of randomly named files and directories under
/tmp/foo (420 directories, 8420 files).  So I'm not really sure if the
fact "maketree.py" is strictly GPLv2 matters at all.






-- 
yours,

Julius Davies
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[Luis Villa]

Hi, Julius-
Just curious- you seem to be doing a systematic scan of things here.
May I ask what tool you're using?

Thanks-
Luis

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Julius Davies <juliusdavies(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  rsync's RPM says it is gplv3+.
>
>  But....
>
>  rsync-3.0.6/getgroups.c;GPLv3
>  rsync-3.0.6/testhelp/maketree.py;GPLv2
>
>  The rest of the source is mostly GPLv3+ with some ZLIB.
>
>
>  The "maketree.py" file doesn't seem too important.  I ran it for fun
>  by just typing:
>
>  python maketree.py
>
>  And now I have 688MB of randomly named files and directories under
>  /tmp/foo (420 directories, 8420 files).  So I'm not really sure if the
>  fact "maketree.py" is strictly GPLv2 matters at all.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  --
>  yours,
>
>  Julius Davies
>  250-592-2284 (Home)
>  250-893-4579 (Mobile)
>  http://juliusdavies.ca/logging.html
>
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[Julius Davies]

Hi, Luis,

I'm primarily using the Ninka tool detailed in Dr. Daniel German's
(currently unpublished) paper, "A sentence-matching method for
automatic license identification of source code files."  You can
download the paper here:

http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/papers/#sec-1.3


I'm also using Fossology's "fosslic" tool.


yours,

Julius

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Luis Villa <luis(a)tieguy.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, Julius-
>  Just curious- you seem to be doing a systematic scan of things here.
>  May I ask what tool you're using?
>
>  Thanks-
>  Luis
>
>  On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Julius Davies <juliusdavies(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > rsync's RPM says it is gplv3+.
> >
> > But....
> >
> > rsync-3.0.6/getgroups.c;GPLv3
> > rsync-3.0.6/testhelp/maketree.py;GPLv2
> >
> > The rest of the source is mostly GPLv3+ with some ZLIB.
> >
> >
> > The "maketree.py" file doesn't seem too important.  I ran it for fun
> > by just typing:
> >
> > python maketree.py
> >
> > And now I have 688MB of randomly named files and directories under
> > /tmp/foo (420 directories, 8420 files).  So I'm not really sure if the
> > fact "maketree.py" is strictly GPLv2 matters at all.
> > 

-- 
yours,

Julius Davies
250-592-2284 (Home)
250-893-4579 (Mobile)
http://juliusdavies.ca/logging.html

[Luis Villa]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Julius Davies <juliusdavies(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, Luis,
>
>  I'm primarily using the Ninka tool detailed in Dr. Daniel German's
>  (currently unpublished) paper, "A sentence-matching method for
>  automatic license identification of source code files."  You can
>  download the paper here:
>
>  http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/papers/#sec-1.3
>
>
>  I'm also using Fossology's "fosslic" tool. 
Very interesting, thanks.

Luis

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sunday 29 November 2009, Luis Villa wrote:
>  On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Julius Davies
> <juliusdavies(a)gmail.com&gt;  
wrote:
>  > Hi, Luis,
>  >
>  > I'm primarily using the Ninka tool detailed in Dr. Daniel German's
>  > (currently unpublished) paper, "A sentence-matching method for
>  > automatic license identification of source code files."  You can
>  > download the paper here:
>  >
>  > http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/papers/#sec-1.3
>  >
>  >
>  > I'm also using Fossology's "fosslic" tool.
>  
>  Very interesting, thanks. 
FWIW, there's also /usr/bin/licensecheck (from Debian) included in recent 
rpmdevtools packages.