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.

[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  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.
>
> --
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>
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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(currently unpublished) paper, "A sentence-matching method for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  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  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.

[Luis Villa]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Julius Davies  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

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.