liblicense Release History

taken from the ChangeLog File

liblicense 0.8 (2008-07-28):

• Fixed LL_LICENSE to be ns#license, not ns#License
• Therefore, bumped ABI and SONAME.
• Removed NULLs possibly meaning LL_LICENSE from ll_read() and ll_write()

liblicense 0.7.1 (2008-07-23):

• Improved bundled .spec file to be compliant with Fedora packaging guidelines
• Demonstrate with test that license name can be read out in the system locale
• Fix writers for alternate metadata so that they pay attention to

 the predicate passed in (rather than always writing LL_LICENSE, GACK!)

• Add test for writing alternate metadata
• Add support in Python bindings to read other metadata than LL_LICENSE

liblicense 0.7.0:

• Change LL_* constants into #defines to avoid problems with Python modules
• SONAME -> 2.0.0

liblicense 0.6.2:

• Fix /usr/bin/license so that it can read license information out of files

 (rather than assert(0)ing!).

liblicense 0.6.1:

• Finally fix SONAME to be 1
• Filter symbols by regex
• Remove spurious bad "FIXME" string in supposedly the license URI

liblicense 0.6:

• verification link support
• morePermission support
• Tests actually assert; all tests pass
• ensure all functions, etc are documented w/Doxygen

liblicense 0.5.1:

• fix Ruby bindings to compile - add stdbool.h include (hub)
• fix license_info.c's ll_parse_version to not free user-provided data (paulproteus)

liblicense 0.5:

Maintainer: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@creativecommons.org> Contributors: Hubert Figuiere <hub@figuiere.net>

             Nathan Yergler <nathan@creativecommons.org>
             Peter Miller <millerp@canb.auug.org.au>
             Scott Shawcroft <scott.shawcroft@gmail.com>
             Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn@gmail.com>

Thanks to Hubert for a HUGE amount of work in this release:

• Adds fixes for various, many segfaults (all NULL dereferences, I think)
• Install licenses in a temporary directory
• Uses LL_ namespace for constants
• Add module_shutdown function for modules
• Detect valgrind, and use it for 'make check' if it is present
• Fix missing string.h include in modules/io/taglib.cpp
• Support building out of tree
• Install modules in an all-local Makefile target, and support clean-local
• Detect Python in configure.ac and refuse to build Python module if its headers are missing
• Automake cleanup: $(shell pwd) -> $(PWD)
• Do shared object name versioning: This ABI/API is v. 1.0.0
• Fix a memory leak in the tests
• Allow 'make check' to run uninstalled
• Fix compile warnings, including a crazy NO_WARN_UNUSED hack for the Ruby bindings
• Ask configure.ac to require Exempi 1.99.5 and adjust exempi.c and sidecar_xmp.c for the new Exempi API

From Nathan:

• The RDF generation that was a one-off hack for liblicense is cleaned-up and now part of our infrastructure; as a result, liblicense gets its RDF files from an svn:externals.
• In particular, the licenses have translated titles and no dc:type = License assertion.
• (The above includes cleanups to gen_licenses.py, including translationg the license title and treating the RDF as RDF never as raw XML.)

From Peter:

• Updates to .indent.pro with typenames we use
• Add extern string constants for ATTRIBUTION, COMMERCIAL_USE, etc.

From Scott:

• Change configure.ac to use msgfmt, not gmsgfmt, and add RPM .spec

From Jason, some of which is accepting patches by Peter:

• Fix license_chooser.c to not export non-ll_* symbols
• Prefix all types with ll_
• Hack around "unused argument" warnings in Python bindings, change magic zero padding at the end of the Python bindings
• Improve code style in license_chooser.c
• Typecast strlen return call to a SIGNED int to avoid a compile warning
• typecasts to (int) in license_info.c
• Comment out unused variables in licenses_cached.c that caused unused variable warnings
• Shortened variable names in modules/io/raptor.c
• Add a note about Vorbis prototypes needing const correctness analysis in mdoules/io/vorbis.c

From Asheesh:

• Fix null pointer dereferences in the case that libexempi failed to open a file we asked for metadata from
• Support LL_LICENSE_DIR environment variable as an alternate license storage path
• license_info.c: Redo the compile warning for license_info.c fix - use size_t as the storage field for the return from strlen
• license_info.c: Stop calling strlen() repeatedly, turning O(n^2) search into O(N)
• license_info.c: Remove unsigned int warning fix because it truncates data; should be fixed in an API revision