varnishcache
Varnish license
Expected Behavior
Files should have correct license text.
Current Behavior
As a part of https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/ , I'm reviewing license texts in source files in varnish.
In LICENCE file from varnish source file tarball, I can read that varnish is distributed under BSD-2-Clause license. When I tried to verify it, I ran licensecheck on those source files and I found some discontinuities:
These files have BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD instead of BSD-2-Clause:
./bin/varnishtest/teken.c: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./bin/varnishtest/teken.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./bin/varnishtest/teken_scs.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./bin/varnishtest/teken_subr.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./bin/varnishtest/teken_subr_compat.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./include/vsb.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License ./include/vtree.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./include/vend.h: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./lib/libvarnish/vpf.c: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License BSD 2-Clause License ./lib/libvarnish/vsb.c: BSD 2-clause FreeBSD License
Files in /lib/libvgz/ should have ZLib license according to /lib/libvgz/README
These files are looking like BSD-3-Clause clause:
./include/vpf.h: BSD 3-Clause License BSD 2-Clause License --- It has BSD-3-Clause identifier, but the text looks like BSD-2-Clause ./include/vqueue.h: BSD 3-Clause License - it is indeed BSD-3-Clause clause ./lib/libvarnishapi/daemon.c: BSD 3-Clause License --- It has BSD-3-Clause identifier, but after points 1. and 2., point 3. is missing and then there is point 4. (typo???)
Following files have Public domain license text in the header of file:
./bin/varnishncsa/b64.c: No copyright Public domain ./include/tbl/vhp_huffman.h: No copyright Public domain ./include/tbl/vhp_static.h: No copyright Public domain ./include/miniobj.h: No copyright Public domain ./vmod/vmod_blob_tbl_encodings.h: No copyright Public domain
Possible Solution
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Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)
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Context
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/
Varnish Cache version
varnish 7.3.0
Operating system
Fedora
Source of binary packages used (if any)
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@uhliarik I am sorry that you did not receive a response earlier.
If you are still interested, do you happen to have a good recommendation regarding the fact that some of our source files are distributed under a different license than the project overall?
