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Bug #78349 Bundled pcre2 library missing LICENCE file
Submitted: 2019-07-29 14:56 UTC Modified: 2019-07-29 15:55 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: rainer dot jung at kippdata dot de Assigned: petk (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PCRE related
PHP Version: 7.4.0beta1 OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2019-07-29 14:56 UTC] rainer dot jung at kippdata dot de 
Description:
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In PHP 7.3 and 7.4 the bundled pcrelib was updated from PCRE 1 to PCRE 2. When updating, all non-code files were dropped, expecially the LICENCE file. I think it would be better to add the upstream PCRE 2 LICENCE file back and maybe also the other ones:

AUTHORS
ChangeLog
COPYING
HACKING
INSTALL
LICENCE
NEWS
NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD
README
doc

The loss might be due to the fact, that in PCRE 1 source file were located in the top directory, just as these accompanying files, in PCRE 2 they are located in a sub folder "src", so just syncing the src folder misses the accompanying files.

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 [2019-07-29 15:25 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Type: Documentation Problem +Type: Bug
 [2019-07-29 15:27 UTC] cmb@php.net 
The license is already contained in README.REDIST.BINS[1].
Not sure what to do regarding the other files.

[1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0beta1/README.REDIST.BINS#L23-L116>
 [2019-07-29 15:48 UTC] rainer dot jung at kippdata dot de 
Ah, had not seen that. For me the licence was the critical file. I think the other files are less critial. I don't know what mechanism is used to sync the bundled pcre2 lib with upstreams. It might be easy to include those files in the sync (if it is not done manually). But if you like you can also close this ticket.

Thanks!
 [2019-07-29 15:54 UTC] petk@php.net 
Hello, also a more relevant linkage for the pcre library is noted in the CONTRIBUTING.md file where to send upstream patches. The LICENSE file can and should be added back probably, yes since it is a "standard" one and copy of it should most likely be included besides the README file in the project root.

Regarding the other doc files and contributing info, they will be outdated soon and are basically more like an inconsistent noise from the php-src point of view. They should be included also to support the upstream library and its authors?
 [2019-07-29 15:55 UTC] petk@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: petk
 [2019-07-29 17:17 UTC] petk@php.net 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Fix #78349: Bundled pcre2 library missing LICENCE file
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4483
Patch:      https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4483.patch
 [2019-09-08 19:50 UTC] petk@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of peterkokot@gmail.com
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=a8c97f0531b5bf5a7fba62feb5fc86ed984cdca9
Log: Fix #78349: Bundled pcre2 library missing LICENCE file
 [2019-09-08 19:50 UTC] petk@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 
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