Licensing of libaudit and libauparse

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Sun Mar 19 17:54:52 UTC 2017


On Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:32:14 PM EDT Richard Fontana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The README file in the audit userspace package says:
> 
>   LICENSE
>   =======
>   The audit daemon is released as GPL'd code. The
>   audit daemon's libraries libaudit.* and libauparse.* are released
>   under LGPL so that it may be linked with 3rd party software.
> 
> However don't these libraries contain code from this file
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/lib/strsplit.c
> which states its license is GPLv2+?

Yes, that looks like a copy and paste mistake. Thanks for pointing that out. 
Anything in:

https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/lib/
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/auparse/
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/bindings/

is intended to LGPL. Would replacing the comment at the beginning of the file 
be sufficient to fix this issue?

Thanks,
-Steve




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