[bug #49024] gnumach links with GPLv3+ material but omits GPLv3 text

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

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Summary: gnumach links with GPLv3+ material but omits GPLv3
text
Project: The GNU Hurd
Submitted by: kon
Submitted on: Wed Sep 7 21:24:34 2016
Category: GNU Mach
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Reproducibility: None
Size (loc): None
Planned Release: None
Effort: 0.00
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Details:

These files in gnumach carry notices saying that they are licensed under
GPLv3-or-later:

* i386/grub/acpi.h
* i386/grub/compiler.h
* i386/grub/cpu/io.h
* i386/grub/cpu/time.h
* i386/grub/cpu/types.h
* i386/grub/err.h
* i386/grub/misc.h
* i386/grub/mm.h
* i386/grub/symbol.h
* i386/grub/time.h
* i386/grub/types.h
* i386/i386at/acpi.c
* i386/i386at/acpihalt.c
* kern/gsync.c
* kern/gsync.h
* gitlog-to-changelog (not used during the build)

The gnumach source tree however does not include a copy of the GPLv3.

These files in gnumach carry notices saying they are dual licensed under
MPLv1.1 or GPLv2-only:

* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/bulkmem.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/bus_ops.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/ciscode.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/cisreg.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/cistpl.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/cs.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/cs_types.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/driver_ops.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/ds.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/mem_op.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/include/pcmcia/ss.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/bulkmem.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/cirrus.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/cistpl.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/cs.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/cs_internal.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/ds.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/ene.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/i82365.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/i82365.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/o2micro.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/ricoh.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/rsrc_mgr.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/smc34c90.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/ti113x.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/topic.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/vg468.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/modules/yenta.h
* linux/pcmcia-cs/wireless/hermes.c
* linux/pcmcia-cs/wireless/orinoco.c

These files in gnumach carry notices saying they are licensed under
GPLv2-only:

* linux/src/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
* linux/src/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.h
* linux/src/include/net/ax25.h

As the FSF says neither GPLv2-only nor MPLv1.1 is compatible with
GPLv3-or-later, it seems there is a license conflict if these files are
actually linked in.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#MPL
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

The Debian gnumach package does not seem to build the pcmcia and BusLogic
drivers. Anyway, it is surely a bug that the GPLv3-or-later files are
included without a copy of the license.




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[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #49024 (project hurd):

I previously listed GPLv2-only files that carry their own license notices.
The GNU Mach tree also contains Linux source files that do not contain a
license notice; then, linux/src/COPYING specifies GPLv2 for them.
linux/dev/drivers/block/genhd.c is one such GPLv2-only file, and it is
compiled in. Thus, it seems there is indeed a license conflict.

The licenses were not discussed in the bug-hurd thread where the i386/grub/
code was imported:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2014-05/msg00019.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2014-07/msg00014.html

In the earlier "GPLv3 and Hurd" discussion, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote that
"the use of the Linux drivers means that the project as a whole can only be
distributed under the GPLv2":

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-06/msg00069.html

A preferable outcome would be if the FSF relicenses the GPLv3-or-later files
to GPLv2-or-later. I hope nobody's rights on the Linux files have become
terminated per GPLv2 section 4.


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[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #49024 (project hurd):

I think the first step should be to import the GPLv3 license text to the
source tree. Even if the GPLv3-or-later files were eventually deleted from
the source tree, they would probably be left in the Git history. Having the
GPLv3 license text likewise in the Git history would reduce the risk that
other parties inadvertently violate the license when they distribute clones of
the GNU Mach Git repository.

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[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49024 (project hurd):

The gsync files were relicensed in commit
c8e687cb8a6ba8f278c58bf78126f843ceb292bb on 2016-10-31, and the ACPI files
were deleted in commit c387012395ec83dbdad5e9a1e31f3a214337d064 on
2016-11-06.

gitlog-to-changelog has not been relicensed nor deleted. It and the deleted
files remain in the Git repository, which still does not include a copy of
GPLv3. ("git log -S'29 June 2007' --all" finds nothing.) Luckily though,
"make dist" does not add gitlog-to-changelog to gnumach-*.tar, so only people
publishing copies of the gnumach Git repository are at risk of unintentionally
violating GPLv3.

The text of GPLv3 should be added to the repository, and terminated licenses
might then be reinstated per GPLv3 section 8.

I would like to retitle this bug report to "gnumach Git repo includes GPLv3+
material but omits GPLv3 text" but it seems I don't have the necessary
privileges.


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[Samuel Thibault]

Update of bug #49024 (project hurd):

Status: None => Fixed
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
Summary: gnumach links with GPLv3+ material but omits GPLv3
text => gnumach Git repo includes GPLv3+ material but omits GPLv3 text
Wiki-like text discussion box: => Retitled and fixed
as per the proposed inclusion of GPL3 text

Thanks!


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