From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: hiroaki.fuse@ymail.ne.jp
Subject: Re: audit library license
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:53:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4782066.GXAFRqVoOG@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1814878736.609807.1675126520174.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.co.jp>
Hello,
On Monday, January 30, 2023 7:55:20 PM EST hiroaki.fuse@ymail.ne.jp wrote:
> Dear All members,
>
> We can find following lines in audit/README file
>
> 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.
>
> I found that latest audit library linked libaucommon.so.
>
> ./lib/Makefile.in:AM_CPPFLAGS = -I. -I${top_srcdir} -I${top_srcdir}/auparse
> -I${top_srcdir}/common ./lib/Makefile.in:libaudit_la_LIBADD =
> $(CAPNG_LDADD) ${top_builddir}/common/libaucommon.la
> ./lib/Makefile.in:libaudit_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(libaudit_la_SOURCES)
> ../config.h ${top_builddir}/common/libaucommon.la
>
> ./auparse/Makefile.am:AM_CPPFLAGS = -I. -I${top_srcdir} -I${top_srcdir}/src
> -I${top_srcdir}/lib -I${top_srcdir}/common
> ./auparse/Makefile.am:libauparse_la_LIBADD =
> ${top_builddir}/lib/libaudit.la ${top_builddir}/common/libaucommon.la
> ./auparse/Makefile.am:libauparse_la_DEPENDENCIES =
> $(libauparse_la_SOURCES) ${top_builddir}/config.h
> ${top_builddir}/common/libaucommon.la
>
> Libaucommo.so is created by following files
>
> ./common/Makefile.am:libaucommon_la_SOURCES = audit-fgets.c strsplit.c
>
> And the license of audit/common/audit-fgets.c is GPLv2
>
> This mean the license of latest audit libraries are also GPLv2.
>
> Is my understanding correct?
The intention stated in the README file is correct. The code in question is
only used by 3 plugins which are GPL and those functions are hidden from
external users of libaudit. The code can be relicenced to make it LGPL so
everything matches the intentions.
-Steve
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2023-01-31 0:55 ` audit library license hiroaki.fuse
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2023-02-01 6:00 ` 布施 博明
2023-02-01 22:08 ` Steve Grubb
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