alpine-pkg-glibc under GPL license? about alpine-pkg-glibc

[sgerrand]

Fair point. Thanks for bringing this up.

The glibc project does have a somewhat more complicated set of licenses attached to it. I'll review the situation in more detail now.

[sgerrand]

The majority of the project uses LGPL. Other parts use licenses like GPL (utilities), BSD (incorporated from BSD 4.4) and specific commercial components have their own licensing.

I'll change the overall package license to LGPL and update the package configuration to pull in the LICENSES file to each of the packages to make the other parts more explicit.

[jgoeres]

Thanks for your quick reaction, this will really help us. :-)
You say that some "utilities" use GPL, at least from the wording this suggests that this does not include the actual runtime parts of glibc (i.e., the actual library other programs link against), correct?

[sgerrand]

Note that the COPYING file in the project is still GPL. COPYING.LIB is the LGPL component.

[sgerrand]

You say that some "utilities" use GPL, at least from the wording this suggests that this does not include the actual runtime parts of glibc (i.e., the actual library other programs link against), correct?

To be honest, I'm not the person to ask about this.

[sgerrand]

I've looked at all the licensing files included in the source distribution, as well as those included by other packagers (e.g. Debian) and it's not very clear where the delineation lies.