[Fedora-legal-list] FC12: rsync-3.0.6: GPLv2 and GPLv3 and GPLv3+ ?

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Sat Nov 28 18:14:07 UTC 2009


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 at gmail.com> 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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> --
> yours,
>
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