[opensuse-factory] gpl-2 vs. bsd-4-claus
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Hi, Recently my syslog-ng update in Factory was rejected: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/660707 The reasoning was: "@babelworx declined the legal report with the following comment: GPL-2.0 incompatible BSD-4-Clause: syslog-ng-3.19.1/lib/compat/strcasestr.c" Two questions: - Does this patch correctly resolve this problem: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/2482/commits/a240d0f48202c41eaac61... - Is licensdigger clever enough to check the patched sources instead of the original? If both answers are "yes", I'll resubmit syslog-ng 3.19 with the above patch. If only the first is yes, I can also roll out a patched release tgz. Bye, CzP Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@balabit.com <mailto:peter.czanik@balabit.com>> Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream https://syslog-ng.com/community/ <https://syslog-ng.com/community/> https://twitter.com/PCzanik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Hi, On 07 Jan 16:43, Peter Czanik wrote:
Hi,
Recently my syslog-ng update in Factory was rejected: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/660707
The reasoning was:
"@babelworx declined the legal report with the following comment: GPL-2.0 incompatible BSD-4-Clause: syslog-ng-3.19.1/lib/compat/strcasestr.c"
Two questions:
- Does this patch correctly resolve this problem: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/pull/2482/commits/a240d0f48202c41eaac61...
Yes, since BSD-3-Clause is compatible with GPLv2 [0]
- Is licensdigger clever enough to check the patched sources instead of the original?
licensedigger is a bot, babelworx is a real person who is clever enough to check the patched sources ;-) Just make sure to add an explanatory changelog entry. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_(%22BSD_License_...) -- SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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İsmail Dönmez
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Peter Czanik