[Fedora-legal-list] 10 packages that might have incorrect license attribute

Julius Davies juliusdavies at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 06:41:09 UTC 2010 

Hi,

Below is my attempt at trying to report on some possibly incorrect
license attributes.  I grab a recent "License" attribute from a recent
RPM, and then I show you results from files I automatically scanned
from the original FC12 DVD.  There are some slight version mismatches
between the recent RPM I grabbed and the FC12 RPM, but I did that just
in case you already fixed the license attribute - I didn't want to
bother you with already fixed stuff!

I hope you can make sense of the format below.  The listings after the
'---' are source files and their detected license that support my
claim that the license attribute in the RPM might be incorrect.


yum-3.2.26-3.fc13.noarch.rpm (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv2 without +?)
---
yum-3.2.25-1/yum-3.2.25/yum/sqlutils.py;GPLv2;,;1


vinagre-2.29.90-1.fc13.i686.rpm (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv3+?)
---
vinagre-2.28.1-1/vinagre-2.28.1/vinagre/vinagre-bookmarks-tree.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1


vino-2.28.1-1.fc12.i686.rpm (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv3+?)
---
vino-2.28.1-1/vino-2.28.1/capplet/vino-message-box.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
vino-2.28.1-1/vino-2.28.1/capplet/vino-url-webservice.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1



iproute-2.6.32-1.fc13.i686.rpm (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv2 without a +?)
---
iproute-2.6.29-4/iproute2-2.6.29/tc/m_skbedit.c;GPLv2;,WarrantyHope,;0
iproute-2.6.29-4/iproute2-2.6.29/tc/q_multiq.c;GPLv2;,WarrantyHope,;0



alsa-utils-1.0.22-1.fc12.i686.rpm  (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv2 without +?)
---
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2/alsa-utils-1.0.21/alsactl/init_sysdeps.c;GPLv2;,;0
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2/alsa-utils-1.0.21/alsactl/init_sysfs.c;GPLv2;,;0
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2/alsa-utils-1.0.21/alsactl/init_utils_run.c;GPLv2;,;0
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2/alsa-utils-1.0.21/alsactl/init_utils_string.c;GPLv2;,;0
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2/alsa-utils-1.0.21/seq/aconnect/aconnect.c;GPLv2;,;0
alsa-utils-1.0.21-2/alsa-utils-1.0.21/seq/aseqnet/aseqnet.c;GPLv2;,;0



bison-2.4.1-4.fc12.i686.rpm (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv3+?)
---
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/data/glr.cc;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/data/glr.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;2
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/data/lalr1.cc;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/data/lalr1.java;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/data/location.cc;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/data/yacc.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;2
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/djgpp/subpipe.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/lib/abitset.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/lib/argmatch.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
bison-2.4.1-4/bison-2.4.1/lib/basename.c;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
[etc...]


fetchmail-6.3.14-1.fc13.i686.rpm (License: GPL+ and Public Domain)
(Should it be GPLv2+?)
---
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/contrib/fetchmail-mode.el;GPLv2+;,;0
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/getopt1.c;GPLv2+;,;1
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/getopt.c;GPLv2+;,;1
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/rfc2047e.c;GPLv2+;,;0
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/smbdes.c;GPLv2+;,;0
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/smbencrypt.c;GPLv2+;,;0
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/smbmd4.c;GPLv2+;,;0
fetchmail-6.3.11-3/fetchmail-6.3.11/stpcpy.c;GPLv2+;,;0



firstboot-1.110-1.fc12.i686.rpm (License: GPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv2 without a +?)
---
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/config.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/constants.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/interface.py;GPLv2;,;3
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/loader.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/module.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/moduleset.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/firstboot/xfrontend.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/modules/create_user.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/modules/date.py;GPLv2;,;2
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/modules/eula.py;GPLv2,GPLv2;,;7
firstboot-1.110-1/firstboot-1.110/modules/welcome.py;GPLv2;,;2



iptables-1.4.6-2.fc13.i686.rpm (License: GPL+)
(Should it be GPLv2 without a +, or maybe GPLv2+ ?)
---
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libip6t_HL.c;GPLnoVersion;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libip6t_mh.c;GPLv2;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libipt_set.c;GPLv2;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libipt_SET.c;GPLv2;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libipt_TTL.c;GPLnoVersion;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libxt_cluster.c;GPLv2;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libxt_connmark.c;GPLv2+;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/extensions/libxt_CONNMARK.c;GPLv2+;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/ip6tables.c;GPLv2+;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/ip6tables-standalone.c;GPLv2+;,;1
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/iptables.c;GPLv2+;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/iptables-standalone.c;GPLv2+;,;1
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/libipq/libipq.c;GPLv2+;,;0
iptables-1.4.5-1/iptables-1.4.5/xtables.c;GPLv2+;,;0




kdebindings-4.4.0-1.fc12.src.rpm  (License: LGPLv2+)
(Should it be GPLv2+ or GPLv3+ depending on binary rpm?)
---
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/csharp/akonadi/src/akonadi.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/csharp/akonadi/src/akonadihandlers.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/csharp/khtml/src/khtml.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/csharp/khtml/src/khtmlhandlers.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/csharp/kimono/src/kdehandlers.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
[etc...]
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/kalyptus/kalyptusCxxToCSharp.pm;GPLv2+,GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/kalyptus/kalyptusCxxToECMA.pm;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/kalyptus/kalyptusCxxToKimono.pm;GPLv2+;,;0
[etc...]
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/php/phpqt/mirrors/main.cpp;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/php/phpqt/mirrors/SmokeItem.cpp;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/php/phpqt/mirrors/smokemodel.cpp;GPLv3+,SeeFile;,;1
[etc...]
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/python/pykde4/configure.py;GPLv2+;,;2
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/python/pykde4/examples/polkitqtExamples/pkexamplehelper.py;GPLv2+;,;1
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/python/pykde4/examples/polkitqtExamples/pkexample.py;GPLv2+;,;1
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/ruby/akonadi/akonadi.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/ruby/akonadi/akonadihandlers.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/ruby/kdevplatform/kdevplatform.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/ruby/kdevplatform/kdevplatformhandlers.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0
kdebindings-4.3.2-1/kdebindings-4.3.2/ruby/khtml/khtml.cpp;GPLv2+;,;0





-- 
yours,

Julius Davies
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