[Bug 465897] Review Request: Judy - General purpose dynamic array library

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--- Comment #11 from Charles R. Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>  2008-11-30 17:18:05 EDT ---
Spec URL: http://cra.fedorapeople.org/Judy/Judy.spec
SRPM URL: http://cra.fedorapeople.org/Judy/Judy-1.0.4-3.fc10.src.rpm
Scratch Build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=964814

* Thu Nov 30 2008 Charles R. Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> 1.0.4-3
- fix Judy1 man page symlinks
- use valid tag License: LGPLv2+ confirmed with upstream
- use version macro in Source0
- remove Makefiles from installed doc tree

Regarding the license, upstream has confirmed that the current license is LGPL
v2.1 or later.  Also, the source code is really the final say on this, and it
says "GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version."  Either way, Fedora spec files don't distinguish between v2.1 and v2,
so this is specified as LGPLv2+ for the spec file.

"From dougbaskins at yahoo.com  Thu Nov 27 21:45:54 2008
From: Doug Baskins <dougbaskins at yahoo.com>
To: Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU>
Cc: judy-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:45:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Judy license confusion - (LGPL v2.1 or later applies)
Reply-To: Doug Baskins <dougbaskins at yahoo.com>

Chuck:

I did not know a new version of LGPL existed.  You are correct,
the COPYING file is correct (LGPL v2.1 or later applies).  I will
change the README file to reflect that in the next release of Judy.
..."



However, the author has noted that the license may change in a future release
to just LGPLv2.  I'll be sure to update the License tag and notify
fedora-devel-list if/when such a new release is imported into Fedora:



"From dougbaskins at yahoo.com  Fri Nov 28 19:09:55 2008
From: Doug Baskins <dougbaskins at yahoo.com>
To: Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:09:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Judy license confusion 
Reply-To: Doug Baskins <dougbaskins at yahoo.com>

Chuck:

I have been requested by Hewlett-Packard to REMOVE the
"or (at your option) later version"  part of the wording from Judy sources.
Apparently the v3 License is not acceptable to a lot of people and companies
with regard to the patent section.  If I do not do this, HP personnel cannot
support me in the future.  Sorry about that.  I suspect that this problem will
get sorted out in the future.  (Sometimes I hate politics or perhaps Lawyers).


Doug


Doug Baskins <dougbaskins at yahoo.com>"

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