[Fedora-legal-list] CUPS scsi backend licensing issue

[Julius Davies]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 09:19 -0800, Julius Davies wrote:
>> In this case I think it's fine!  Thanks so much for looking into this,
>> and especially for providing a great picture of the actual connections
>> between the binary files.  I see this "backend/scsi" executable really
>> does come from only scsi.c and scsi-linux.c.
>>
>> $ objdump -D  -l cups-1.4.2/backend/scsi |  grep cups-1.4.2 | sort
>>
>> /home/julius/cups/cups-1.4.2/backend/scsi.c:110
>> [etc....]
>> /home/julius/cups/cups-1.4.2/backend/scsi-linux.c:112
>> [etc....]
>
> Well, and it dynamically links to libcups.so.2:
>
> $ ldd /usr/lib/cups/backend/scsi | grep cups
>        libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libcups.so.2 (0x00007f19e21dd000)
>
> But that's OK?
>
> Tim.
> */
>
>

Yeah, that's fine if libcups.so.2 is LGPL.




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