From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xose Vazquez Perez Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 19:29:08 +0200 Message-ID: <9ad33b55-17fc-9ed9-ca11-2be0e11a7b1f@gmail.com> References: <20180327182819.20163-1-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> <1523289440.3525.27.camel@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1523289440.3525.27.camel@suse.com> Content-Language: en-GB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Martin Wilck , Christophe Varoqui Cc: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids On 04/09/2018 05:57 PM, Martin Wilck wrote: > There are >130 files in the multipath-tools source code which don't > have a license header. So far my *assumption* was that these files were > covered by COPYING, which used to be LGPLv2.0. They are under their _original_ licence. Nothing was changed inside the files. > By changing COPYING to > GPLv2.0, you effectively changed the license of all these files from > LPGLv2.0 to GPLv2.0 There is no evidence of that in any place. All references to the COPYING file are external files/code, with GPL licence. $ git grep COPYING libdmmp/docs/kernel-doc:## Please read the COPYING file for more information ## libmultipath/alias.c: * See the file COPYING included with this distribution for more details. libmultipath/file.c: * See the file COPYING included with this distribution for more details. third-party/valgrind/drd.h: otherwise indicated. See the COPYING file in the source third-party/valgrind/drd.h: COPYING file in the source distribution for details. third-party/valgrind/valgrind.h: otherwise indicated. See the COPYING file in the source third-party/valgrind/valgrind.h: COPYING file in the source distribution for details.