Hi, I simplify a question. Can I distribute librpmdb.so / librpmio.so under LGPL ? Thanks in advance. 2011/3/17 Hiroyuki Iizaka <hiizaka@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > > I'm a support engineer of MontaVista Japan. > I have a question about GPL. > > Could you help me answer the question from our customer? > > > According to COPYING file (rpm-4.3.3-6.0.7.1100783.src.rpm), > under lib subdirectory of RPM source code can distribute LGPL. > > -< rpm-4.3.3/COPYING >--------------------------------------------------- > ... > The entire code base may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General > Public License (GPL), which appears immediately below. Alternatively, > all of the source code in the lib subdirectory of the RPM source code > distribution as well as any code derived from that code may instead be > distributed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), at the > choice of the distributor. > ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > But, the source code of librpmdb.so and librpmio.so are not > under lib subdirectory of RPM source code like following. > > # pwd > /work/RPM/rpm-4.3.3 > # ls -l > ... > drwxr-xr-x 2 10050 510 4096 Feb 1 2005 lib <-- lib subdirectory > ... > drwxr-xr-x 2 10050 510 4096 Feb 1 2005 rpmdb <-- separate directory > drwxr-xr-x 2 10050 510 4096 Feb 1 2005 rpmio <-- separate directory > > /usr/lib/librpmdb.so and /usr/lib/librpmio.so are shared library, > so I suppose that these licenses are LGPL. > > I checked under rpmdb and rpmio directory, but I couldn't find > any documentation or comment for license. > > The question is, the license of librpmdb.so / librpmio.so are LGPL? > > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Hiroyuki Iizaka > -- Hiroyuki Iizaka _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
