[Lzip-bug] Re: zutils licensing

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Daniel,

Daniel Baumann wrote:
> when I was uploading zutils to debian, there was pointed out that the
> files in zutils are all public domain, but still the tarball contains a
> copy of the GPL.
>
> Assuming that this was a glitch and the GPL copy was not ment to be
> included on purpose (since no files does neither reference the COPYING
> file nor the GPL), it would be nice if you could remove that file from
> the source tree to avoid future missunderstandings.

There are two (perhaps not very good) reasons why the zutils tarball 
contains a copy of the GPL. First is I use the COPYING file as data for 
the tests (see testsuite/check.sh line 30). Second is some kind of 
not-so-simple program will be included in zutils in the future, and it 
will be GPL-licensed.

BTW, I have recently created a mailing list for zutils 
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/zutils-bug


Best regards,
Antonio.