FS#38211 - [lz4] Incorrect license specified in PKGBUILD

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by jstjohn (jstjohn) - Saturday, 21 December 2013, 02:16 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Wednesday, 25 December 2013, 19:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: The PKGBUILD states that lz4 is licensed under the GPLv2, but this is incorrect according to [1] and [2].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/lz4/
[2] http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/lz4.html

Additional info:
* package version: 109-2
Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Wednesday, 25 December 2013, 19:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  License of the binary is GPLv2 not BSD! We don't ship the library.
Comment by jstjohn (jstjohn) - Saturday, 21 December 2013, 02:23 GMT
I just found this on the issue tracker, so rather than replacing "GPL2" with "BSD", it seems like "BSD" should just be added to the list of licenses.

From the lz4 maintainer:
"License : the libraries (lz4, lz4hc and xxhash) are BSD license. The command line interface programs (lz4.exe, fullbench, fuzzer) are GPLv2.

Copying is not required when using only the libraries.
Copying is provided for the "make install" command,
which builds command-line utilities, which are GPLv2."

https://code.google.com/p/lz4/issues/detail?id=101
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 17:33 GMT
Question asked upstream. W&S

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