[Bug 226148] New: cyrus-imap is GPL tainted by openslp
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 Summary: cyrus-imap is GPL tainted by openslp Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jw@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de CC: cfarrell@novell.com cyrus-imap links against libslp.so.1, and we have some GPLed and LGPLed files in the openslp package: common/slp_v1message.c slptool/slptool.c slptool/slptool.h common/slp_attr.h common/slp_filter.h please investigate if this taints cyrus-imap. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |mls@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 mls@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|mls@novell.com |jcalcote@novell.com ------- Comment #1 from mls@novell.com 2006-12-05 11:29 MST ------- All files in the common directory are in libslp. Reassigning to John Calcote, maybe he knows if those files can be changed to the openslp license. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 jw@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rhafer@novell.com, bwhiteley@novell.com ------- Comment #2 from jw@novell.com 2006-12-05 11:31 MST ------- looks like openwbem also is a BSD package and links against libslp. Adding maintainers. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 ------- Comment #3 from mls@novell.com 2006-12-05 12:33 MST ------- It seems like the predicate code isn't linked into libslp, so we're talking about just one small file, slp_v1message.c. slp_v1message.o is linked into libslp, but I don't think it is used at all, as we never send V1 queries. So we can probably move it to libslpd, if we cannot resolve the copyright issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 ------- Comment #4 from jcalcote@novell.com 2006-12-05 12:47 MST ------- The predicate code is not linked in for this reason. I need to rewrite this code - probably as a simple r/d parser, rather than a lex/bison parser. This parser was contributed by Michael Day some time ago, and I don't think Matt Peterson realized that he checked it in under GPL (not even LGPL!). This infects the entire code base if used, so we discontinued the use of it. I think perhaps he may have stolen this code from another OSS project that was LGPL, and he was worried about re-releasing it in this context under BSD. I didn't realize the slp_v1message.c code was non-bds. I'll have to look into this. I don't think it will be a problem to change the license on this code because it was written by a Novell employee (Ganesan Rajagopal). I think he just didn't realize that the rest of the code was BSD. I'll comment again when I've had a chance to look at the code. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 jcalcote@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #5 from jcalcote@novell.com 2006-12-18 09:49 MST ------- Okay - I've contacted Mike Day at IBM - the original contributor of the predicate parser code. He's agreed to re-release this source under a BSD style license to match the rest of the code base. I've accepted his changes and checked them into the HEAD branch of the repository. I've also checked out all of the other source files in the repository. Only the contrib files had potentially different licenses, and since these were contributed by Caldera folks, I made the assumption that they could be managed according to project guidelines and changed them myself from whatever they were to the Caldera BSD style license. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 ------- Comment #6 from jw@novell.com 2006-12-18 10:14 MST ------- John, is there any e-mail from Mike Day that you could quote here for reference? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 ------- Comment #7 from jcalcote@novell.com 2006-12-18 10:46 MST ------- I've posted the email thread to the openslp-devel mailing list. This will cause the thread to be archived for future reference. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226148 ------- Comment #8 from jw@novell.com 2006-12-18 12:33 MST ------- That is even better. Thanks! http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=37714339 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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