FS#70796 - [pipewire] Incorrect license reported

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Emil (xexaxo) - Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 09:43 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 19:24 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
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 webUI and package list the pipewire (set of packages) as LGPL. Although that has not been the case for 2+ years.
With this upstream commit, the license was changed to MIT/X11

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/85f2e93c546816a5cbb218c271aa18210bd9b64a
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 19:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in trunk.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 23:11 GMT
Unfortunately it's not so clear-cut as the pipewire codebase still contains a lot of LGPL code; just grep for "the GNU". There's even a GPL2-only file.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 08:26 GMT
Pipewire itself is MIT/X11. jack, bluez and alsa pieces are a mix of GPL and LGPL.
Comment by Emil (xexaxo) - Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 09:58 GMT
Opened an issue upstream - let's see what they say and if there's anything to be done.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1174

Summary from ^^
- jack, bluez, ladspa - LGPL headers, copied from upstream... all but bluez are for convenience AFAICT
- alsa - LGPL code, headers and configs, copied from PA ... yet the LICENSE says "All PipeWire source files are ...MIT..."

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