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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006099 | unreal | documentation | public | 2022-05-09 20:02 | 2022-05-13 10:22 |
| Reporter | libsys | Assigned To | syzop | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 6.0.3 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 6.0.4-rc1 | ||||
| Summary | 0006099: What is the license for this project? (GPLv1+ or GPLv2) | ||||
| Description | I've looked at the source code of the project and noticed in several files it says license is "GPLv1 or later", which means that I could use it as licensed under GPLv3, but the LICENSE file contains the GPLv2 text. I wonder if there's any file on the project licensed as "GPLv2 only" or we could consider the project as a whole licensed as "any version of the GPL". Now that OpenSSL v3 is under Apache 2 license, if this project is licensed under GPLv3 it would no longer have conflicting licenses and allow for packaging into operating system distributions such as Debian. I've also noticed that some people says the project uses a "non DFSG-free versions of the MD5 algorithm for hostcloaking" so I wonder what's that dependency/code. | ||||
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You mentioned some files have "License: GPLv2". I have now clarified that this was meant to be (and is now) "License: GPLv2 or later". ( https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/commit/b154591a5825980a7b47710abd98f682c13ebcb9 ). The code of UnrealIRCd consists mostly of a mix of "GPLv1 or later" and "GPLv2 or later". The remaining parts either come from public domain or BSD license WITHOUT advertising clause, so are GPL compatible. As for MD5: in 2015 our own md5 code was removed and we rely on OpenSSL to provide the routines, see https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/commit/229bcca9967d26b40e8b77880ad9fc368e4d1527 |
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Also updated /LICENSE in commit https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/commit/cd48fec82656383ae3302a8d7e4471b954a42bbe since that could be potentially confusing as well. I think that answers all the questions that need to be answered, right? |
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it does, thanks a lot |
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Good! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2022-05-09 20:02 | libsys | New Issue | |
| 2022-05-11 08:21 | syzop | Note Added: 0022473 | |
| 2022-05-11 10:27 | syzop | Note Added: 0022474 | |
| 2022-05-11 20:42 | libsys | Note Added: 0022475 | |
| 2022-05-13 10:22 | syzop | Assigned To | => syzop |
| 2022-05-13 10:22 | syzop | Status | new => resolved |
| 2022-05-13 10:22 | syzop | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2022-05-13 10:22 | syzop | Fixed in Version | => 6.0.4-rc1 |
| 2022-05-13 10:22 | syzop | Note Added: 0022481 |
