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Florian Festi authored
As the code in the rpmio sub directory was split out of the lib sub dir it is already under LGPL as "code derived from" "the source code in the lib subdirectory" according to the license. But not having the sub directory mentioned in the license confuses users and contributers. The original release tarballs in http://ftp.rpm.org/releases/historical/ show the license was changed into the existing dual one between rpm 2.4.3 and 2.4.4, and that no rpmio/ directory exists at that time. Our git repo disagrees with the time of rpmio/ split due to some conversion artifacts (cvs to mercury to git), as it shows rpmio/ directory existing from the first commit, but this was not actually the case. The license stating that the dual license is there to allow linking with librpm from non-GPL code supports this interpretation as librpmio is required in order to use librpm even if it is a separate library nowadays. So this change does not change the license of any code but only clearifies the current situation. Resolves: #516
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