elfutils license

[Matias Feliciano]

Debian Weekly News - April 6th, 2004 :
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/14/
        RPM orphaned and not free anymore? Joey Hess orphaned rpm since
        the newest version depends on the non-free elfutils library.
        This makes it impossible for Joey to update the package. Not
        being able to include rpm in Debian could have far reaching
        consequences - from problems with the LSB to increased
        difficulty to run other distributions software on Debian and
        vice-versa.
        
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239518
        AFAI can see elfutils is doubly licenced under GPL and/or OSL:
        
        * two COPYING files - one for GPL other for OSL
        * NEWS says:
          "[...]
           Version 0.91:
           [...]
           libelf: change to GPL from OSL1 for now."
        * elfutils.spec says:
          "[...]
           %changelog
           * Wed Jan  7 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> 0.91-2
           - macroized spec file for GPL or OSL builds"


This is the head of elfutils.spec :
%define gpl 0

Why Fedora do not use the GPL version ?

>From elfutils.spec :
%if %{gpl}
Requires: binutils >= 2.14.90.0.4-26.2
%endif

In F2T2 :
rpm -q binutils :
binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-2

It's greater than 2.14.90.0.4-26.2

btw,  elfutils package miss /usr/share/doc/elfutils/COPYING.