Status of osmocom libraries in Debian

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Holger Freyther holger at freyther.de
Fri Feb 19 19:00:55 UTC 2016


> On 14 Feb 2016, at 21:35, Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libo/libosmocore/copyright-0.9.0-4

Files: tests/fr/fr_test.c
       tests/logging/logging_test.c
       tests/loggingrb/loggingrb_test.c
Copyright: 2008,2009,2012 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <zecke at selfish.org>
           2012-2013      Katerina Barone-Adesi <kat.obsc at gmail.com>
License: AGPL-3+

I need to update the license to GPL-3+. It has been a mistake to use AGPL here.



Files: src/gsm/milenage/aes-internal.c
       src/gsm/milenage/aes-encblock.c
       src/gsm/milenage/aes.h
       src/gsm/milenage/milenage.c
       src/gsm/milenage/aes_wrap.h
       src/gsm/milenage/aes-internal-enc.c
       src/gsm/milenage/aes_i.h
Copyright: 2003-2007 Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>
License: GPL-2
Comment: Most of the file aes-internal.c is public_domain

That would be problematic. The code is dual-licensed to be GPLv2 and BSD licensed. To be compatible in the "great" scheme this code should be used under BSD license. In fact the upstream code has now switched to only use BSD for this code.

holger


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