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Re: NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages
- From: Andy Green <andy warmcat com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub redhat com>, Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Cc:
- Subject: Re: NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:21:07 +0100
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> BTW, shouldn't we start changing License: tags in packages for *GPL
> packages, so that it include the exact version?
> E.g. License: GPL2 (or GPL2only?) for GPL 2 without any later,
> LGPL2.1+ (or LGPL2.1?) for LGPL 2.1 or any later, etc.
There is a whole subject here... distributors of GPL2 "or later" have
the opportunity to specify the terms they are distributing it on. For
example, it is a legit option AIUI to specify that you are giving people
GPL2 "or later" stuff under specifically GPL2 terms.
-Andy
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