glibc-2.35-0ubuntu3 library in Ubuntu 22.04 include GPLv2 header file

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Jul 3 09:03:53 GMT 2023


* Hiroaki Fuse:

> I also checked the history of "nss/nss_module.c" and found following
> commit. (2020-12-04)
>
>   - https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=f8847d83e17774ed5e9c0f75ef693680b91bcae4
>
> Before above commit "nss/nss_module.c" did not include
> "nscd/nscd.h". In this case glibc is LGPLv2.1 .

I should be able to post a patch later today.  It's relatively easy to
change, certainly easier than getting consensus whether the change is
actually necessary. 8-)

(This dependency has been there for much longer, but perhaps harder to
discover.)

Thanks,
Florian



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