Re: Licensing of libaudit and libauparse

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Sunday, March 19, 2017 11:13:04 PM EDT Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 01:54:52PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:32:14 PM EDT Richard Fontana wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The README file in the audit userspace package says:
> > >   LICENSE
> > >   =======
> > >   The audit daemon is released as GPL'd code. The
> > >   audit daemon's libraries libaudit.* and libauparse.* are released
> > >   under LGPL so that it may be linked with 3rd party software.
> > > 
> > > However don't these libraries contain code from this file
> > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/lib/strsplit.
> > > c
> > > which states its license is GPLv2+?
> > 
> > Yes, that looks like a copy and paste mistake. Thanks for pointing that
> > out. Anything in:
> > 
> > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/lib/
> > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/auparse/
> > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/master/bindings/
> > 
> > is intended to LGPL. Would replacing the comment at the beginning of the
> > file be sufficient to fix this issue?
> 
> It may depend on the history of the file. If you were the only person
> who contributed to it, yes. But if anyone else contributed to it, and
> let's say the contributions were not copyrighted by Red Hat, and the
> contributions were sufficiently nontrivial, then maybe we'd have to
> get permission from such other contributors to change the indicated
> license of the file.

OK. Good to know. I am the sole contributor to that file. I also checked and 
fixed some new files in auparse/ to which I am also the sole contributor at the 
same time. Everything is good in git and the next release should take care of 
this issue.

Thanks for noticing this.

-Steve