SPECS/gamin.spec

@@ -12,12 +12,18 @@
 Summary: Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API
 Name: gamin
 Version: 0.1.10
-Release: 31%{?dist}
+Release: 32%{?dist}
+
+# The COPYING file contains the LGPLv2 license. However, some of the included
+# files (i.e. server/inotify-path.h, server/inotify-kernel.c,
+# server/inotify-kernel.h) contains the GPLv2 license header by mistake. Those
+# codes were imported from GnomeVFS, where the license was changed to the
+# LGPLv2 soon after this import, but this change was not reflected in the Gamin
+# codes. The mentioned codes can't be fixed upstream given the fact those
+# projects are already dead. I don't want to make that change downstream, thus
+# adding this comment. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096200.
 License: LGPLv2
-#some of the files (server/inotify-kernel.c) are GPLv2
-#so https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPL_Compatibility_Matrix
-#says the whole is GPLv2
-#License: GPLv2
+
 Group: Development/Libraries
 Source0: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gamin/0.1/gamin-%{version}.tar.bz2
 # sample config file
@@ -156,6 +162,9 @@ rm -fv %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libgamin_shared.a
 %endif # with python2
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Nov 11 2020 Ondrej Holy <oholy@redhat.com> - 0.1.10-32
+- Add a comment clarifying the license (rhbz#1096200)
+
 * Sun Jun 10 2018 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 0.1.10-31
 - Conditionalize the python2 subpackage