GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Aug 16 08:28:02 UTC 2007


On Thursday 16 August 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:

> quoting: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
> "A GPL or LGPL licensed package that lacks any statement of what version
> that it's licensed under in the source code/program output/accompanying
> docs is technically licensed under *any* version of the GPL or LGPL, not
> just the version in whatever COPYING file they include."

The GPL license text (section 9 of v2, section 14 of v3) also says that.  
Ditto LGPL (section 13 or v2.1, section 6 of v3).




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