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FS#37437 - [lz4] incorrect license and missing library

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Jed Brown (jedbrown) - Monday, 21 October 2013, 17:55 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 18:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The lz4 package metadata claims a BSD license, but this only applies to the LZ4 library, not the command-line tool, which is GPLv2. Meanwhile, the lz4 library and header is not installed, though I think it would be useful.

Additional info:
* lz4-106-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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This task blocks these from closing
 FS#38211 - [lz4] Incorrect license specified in PKGBUILD 
Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 18:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Both licenses referenced in license field.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 21 October 2013, 18:31 GMT
There's no library...
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Monday, 21 October 2013, 18:55 GMT
Code hosting website claims: New BSD; https://code.google.com/p/lz4/
COPYING file in trunk root: GPL ; https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/browse/trunk/COPYING
CLI C file: GPL ; https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/browse/trunk/lz4cli.c
What they call at some place library: BSD ; https://code.google.com/p/lz4/source/browse/trunk/lz4.c

So I will add GPL into the license field.
Comment by Jed Brown (jedbrown) - Monday, 21 October 2013, 19:40 GMT
Yeah, it's a cruddy way to distribute a library, but lz4 actually supports building a shared library via the cmake directory and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON. I asked the author for clarification about the license and everything is BSD-licensed except for the CLI file.

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