Hi, Tim, In this case I think it's fine! Thanks so much for looking into this, and especially for providing a great picture of the actual connections between the binary files. I see this "backend/scsi" executable really does come from only scsi.c and scsi-linux.c. $ objdump -D -l cups-1.4.2/backend/scsi | grep cups-1.4.2 | sort /home/julius/cups/cups-1.4.2/backend/scsi.c:110 [etc....] /home/julius/cups/cups-1.4.2/backend/scsi-linux.c:112 [etc....] Sorry I opened the bug! I opened the bug over at CUPS, and they seemed to agree there was a problem, so that's why I opened it at Fedora. But now I see that it's fine. Shall I close the bug? yours, Julius On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about how to proceed in the light of this reported > licensing bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567854 > > There is an upstream bug corresponding to it here: > http://cups.org/str.php?L3509 > > The problem is that some of the source files in CUPS (all versions) > include the BSD-With-Advertising license text in their headers, whereas > CUPS as a whole is licensed as GPLv2 and LGPLv2 (but may link against > OpenSSL). > > As noted in the Bugzilla bug report, the code cannot automatically be > relicensed to remove the advertising clause. > > These files will be removed in a future version of CUPS (1.5.x), but the > current stable series will continue to ship them. > > Here is the upstream response to STR #3509: > > ==> > Well, since we are the copyright holder we can say that the BSD license > in the SCSI backend sources is compatible, just as we say you can mix > CUPS with OpenSSL - the CUPS license is GPL2+LGPL2+exceptions. > > In any case, since a) the SCSI backend is never used, b) we have removed > it from CUPS trunk, and c) Linux distributors can always remove the SCSI > backend from the list of legacy backends that are built and installed > with the current releases of CUPS, I'm going to just dupe this bug > against STR #3500. > <== > > STR #3500 is the upstream bug report which caused these files to be > removed on the trunk for the reason that they are no longer needed. > > What are these files? The scsi.c, scsi-irix.c and scsi-linux.c files > make up the 'scsi' CUPS backend, an executable which resides > in /usr/lib/cups/backend and which the CUPS scheduler spawns in order to > hand off jobs to SCSI printers. It links against libcups.so.2, which is > licensed as LGPLv2. > > === > > So, the questions are: > > a) is this a problem? > > and > > b) if so is it sufficient for me to simply not ship the scsi backend in > the cups binary package, or does the source tarball need to be re-spun > for each new release to excise these BSD-licensed files? > > Thanks, > Tim. > */ > > > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list > legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal > -- yours, Julius Davies 250-592-2284 (Home) 250-893-4579 (Mobile) http://juliusdavies.ca/logging.html _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
