licence tag questions
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Aug 22 13:21:43 UTC 2007
Zoltan Kota wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
>> Zoltan Kota wrote:
>
>>> Checking the source files of 'recode' I found the following licenses:
>>> mostly GPLv2+, LGPLv2+, and in some files GNU Library General Public
>>> License.
>>> According to gnu.org the GNU Library General Public License has been
>>> succeeded by the GNU Lesser General Public License.
>>>
>>> What should I use in the License tag??
>>>
>
>> /usr/bin/foo, build from 5 GPLv2+ files and one LGPLv2+ file -> its GPLv2+
>> /usr/lib/libfoo.so.0, build from 3 LGPLv2+ files -> its LGPLv2+
>>
>> Now if you both of these in the same package then the package gets:
>>
>> License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
>>
>> As it has binaries under 2 different licences in the package
>>
>
>
> As much as I could figure out both the util and the lib are built from
> GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ source files. So they and the package itself are
> GPLv2+, aren't they?
>
Yes that would be the case then.
Regards,
Hans
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