[Bug 510734] Review Request: x11vnc - VNC server for the current X11 session

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Christian Krause <chkr at plauener.de> changed:

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--- Comment #41 from Christian Krause <chkr at plauener.de>  2009-08-03 18:55:20 EDT ---
@FE-LEGAL

There are 2 legal issues with this package:

1. pre-compiled binaries

The upstream tarball [1] contains a bunch of pre-compiled java binaries:
./classes/ssl/VncViewer.jar
./classes/ssl/UltraViewerSSL.jar
./classes/ssl/src/VncViewer.jar
./classes/ssl/src/UltraViewerSSL.jar
./classes/ssl/src/SignedVncViewer.jar
./classes/ssl/src/VncViewerNOSSL.jar
./classes/ssl/src/SignedUltraViewerSSL.jar
./classes/ssl/SignedVncViewer.jar
./classes/ssl/VncViewerNOSSL.jar
./classes/ssl/SignedUltraViewerSSL.jar
./classes/VncViewer.jar
./classes/UltraViewerSSL.jar
./classes/SignedVncViewer.jar
./classes/VncViewerNOSSL.jar
./classes/SignedUltraViewerSSL.jar

and

./ssl/src/tight/*.class
./ssl/src/ultra/*.class

The binary package will contain neither pre-compiled nor newly-compiled
java tools. The complete classes/ directory is deleted
in the spec file in the %install section.

Please advice, whether the pre-compiled java binaries can be distributed via
the src.rpm or whether the upstream tarball should be re-packaged without these
files.


2. License:

Although the COPYING files indicates GPLv2+, there are a couple of source
files which explicitly state GPLv2.
Most of these files are in the unused libvncserver/ directory, so they can be
ignored.

However, the file x11vnc/x11vnc.c which used to build /usr/bin/x11vnc (included
in the binary RPM) is licensed under GPLv2.

This would lead to the conclusion that the whole package should be GPLv2.

Please can you confirm this?


Thank you very much in advance!

[1] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libvncserver/x11vnc-0.9.8.tar.gz

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