Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] libinconv and its license

[Laurent Lyaudet]

Hello,

There should be two files for the license, one for the GPL and one for the additional permissions of the Lesser/Library GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

I do see two files in the source tree :

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libiconv.git;a=tree

COPYING

COPYING.LIB

The GPL 3 file

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libiconv.git;a=blob;f=COPYING;h=94a9ed024d3859793618152ea559a168bbcbb5e2;hb=HEAD

The Library GPL file linked to version 2 of the GPL or later (maybe it should be updated to be the Lesser GPL file).

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libiconv.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LIB;h=778d0bb5b2a459f6f28ccb2e8aad409c2b497e50;hb=HEAD

(Library GPL was renamed Lesser GPL at some point in time because it could apply to something else than a library,

in both cases it is LGPL.)

It seems OK to me. In this file, I have

                  GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
   2                        Version 2, June 1991
   3
   4  Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
   6  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
   7  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
   8
   9 [This is the first released version of the library GPL.  It is
  10  numbered 2 because it goes with version 2 of the ordinary GPL.]

Do you have anything different in your .tar.gz ? Or did you get confused between COPYING and COPYING.LIB ?

Best regards,

    Laurent Lyaudet

Le mar. 31 mars 2020 à 16:48, Daniel Steiner <address@hidden> a écrit :

Hello,

I was downloading the libiconv sources from:
https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.16.tar.gz
 
According to the Copyright in the README file of the package, libiconv is under LGPL:

The libiconv and libcharset _libraries_ and their header files are under LGPL,
see file COPYING.LIB.

However when checking COPYING.LIB it seems to be a GPL license but not the LGPL.
To me it looks like COPYING.LIB contains the wrong license.

Is this intentional? Or do I miss something?

Thanks for your help,
Daniel

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