Re: Please ship GPLv3 in the tarball

[Simon Josefsson]

Vincent Untz <address@hidden> writes:

> Le jeudi 28 mai 2009, à 22:34 +0200, Simon Josefsson a écrit :
>> Vincent Untz <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Since some files in gsasl are GPLv3, I think it makes sense to ship
>> > GPLv3 as COPYING and the LGPLv2.1 as COPYING.lib.
>> 
>> The LGPLv2.1+ files are all in lib/, and lib/COPYING is the LGPLv2.1
>> license.  All the GPLv3+ files are in the top-level package, where
>> COPYING is GPLv3.  Do you think that is sufficient?  I tried to clarify
>> this in the top-level README, which now reads:
>
> So, hrm, I'm looking at the libgsasl tarball and there, I only have
> COPYING for LGPLv2.1. But the gltests directory contains GPLv3 stuff.
>
> (sure, it's not needed for the library, but the tarball is not
> LGPL-only -- it's arguably a minor thing ;-))

Ah, right, I didn't follow that you were talking about the
libgsasl-*.tar.gz archive.  Yes, you are right, it should ship both
licenses.  I've fixed this for the next release now (although there
seems to be some problem with savannah so I cannot push the commit).

Thanks,
/Simon