[Bug 506339] Review Request: XZ Utils - LZMA Utils with newer file format

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--- Comment #24 from Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>  2009-07-17 11:38:59 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> I looked over the licensing and have a question.  The code that I believe you
> currently indicate is LGPLv2+ is public domain unless the getopt_long code is
> used.  But there shouldn't be any reason for that to be compiled or linked in,
> because glibc should already have it.  Indeed, the build log shows no trace of
> that code being used.  So why isn't the bulk of the package public domain? 
> (Obviously the various scripts that are GPLv2+ and are correctly marked as
> such.)

The COPYING file in the tarball is incorrect/premature (see comment #13); the
code for the xz commands (src/xz/*.c) is marked as LGPLv2.1+ in its comments.

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