Licensing of libaudit and libauparse

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Mon Mar 20 20:14:14 UTC 2017


On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > 
> > > is intended to LGPL. Would replacing the comment at the beginning of the
> > > file be sufficient to fix this issue?
> > 
> > It may depend on the history of the file. If you were the only person
> > who contributed to it, yes. But if anyone else contributed to it, and
> > let's say the contributions were not copyrighted by Red Hat, and the
> > contributions were sufficiently nontrivial, then maybe we'd have to
> > get permission from such other contributors to change the indicated
> > license of the file.
> 
> OK. Good to know. I am the sole contributor to that file. I also checked and 
> fixed some new files in auparse/ to which I am also the sole contributor at the 
> same time. Everything is good in git and the next release should take care of 
> this issue.

Okay, thank you!

Richard




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