[Bug 198830] Review Request: libmodelfile - library for accessing WorldForge model files

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Summary: Review Request: libmodelfile - library for accessing WorldForge model files
Alias: libmodelfile

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198830





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2006-09-20 21:15 EST -------
(In reply to comment #8)

> In the review for libmodelfile
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198830), you
> mention that the package's license conflicts with the included GPL license.
> 
> The upstream author is willing to make the necessary changes, but has
> asked for clarification via bugzilla because he (nor I) are able to see
> exactly where the conflict arises.  Ralf, you mention that section 2 of
> the source file licenses conflict with the GPL, but when I read section
> 2a of the GPL, I don't see this as a conflict.
>
> I see your point, I guess they are compatible then Ralf, do you agree? 

Well, the author's sources apply a license which is not the GPL. He licenses
them under a different license model => His sources are not GPL'ed.

Judging if his work can be shipped under a "GPL umbrella" probably would require
a lawyer. As I originally said, I see a potential incompatibility between the
GPL and paragraph 2 of his license:
"2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
 misrepresented as being the original software."


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