elfutils license
Matias Feliciano
feliciano.matias at free.fr
Wed Apr 7 00:46:37 UTC 2004
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.
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