Bug 286273 – [WPE][GTK] libsysprof-capture contains GPLv3+ sources

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Michael Catanzaro]

The license of Source/ThirdParty/libsysprof-capture/mapped-ring-buffer.c and mapped-ring-buffer.h is GPL-3.0-or-later.

Fortunately this is probably just a mistake. Looks like the intended license is BSD-2-Clause-Patent and these files were just missed in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sysprof/-/commit/532972beb66f6db4e9e71933e849dc8529d49be0. I have inquired about relicensing these files.

Maybe we need an EWS to run licensecheck for us so we cannot forget.

[Michael Catanzaro]

There are also several tests:

Source/ThirdParty/libsysprof-capture/tests/allocs-by-size.c: * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
Source/ThirdParty/libsysprof-capture/tests/cross-thread-frees.c: * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
Source/ThirdParty/libsysprof-capture/tests/find-temp-allocs.c: * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
Source/ThirdParty/libsysprof-capture/tests/rewrite-pid.c: * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
Source/ThirdParty/libsysprof-capture/tests/test-capture-cursor.c: * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

But we can simply delete these, and add a note to our WebKit README mentioning to not import them again.

[Christian Hergert]

It was indeed a mistake. Source is updated to match the other BSD licenses.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Thank you!

[Michael Catanzaro]

Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/39299

[EWS]

Committed 289297@main (e4ef1b87b839): <https://commits.webkit.org/289297@main>

Reviewed commits have been landed. Closing PR #39299 and removing active labels.