Specifying particular GPL versions in license tag
Jose' Matos
jamatos at fc.up.pt
Wed Mar 8 08:37:34 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 23:44, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I'm reviewing a couple of packages that specify
Hi Jason,
> License: GPL version 2 or later
>
> which rpmlint complains about. "GPL version 2 or later" is directly
> from the package source.
>
> I suspect that all but a handful of the packages in Core and Extras
> say "GPL" when they include GPLv2 and allow any later version. So
> should this package just do the same? Or is such specificity allowed?
>
> It won't be long before we start seeing GPLv3 packages and, as a side
> effect, GPLv2only packages. How will these be specified?
I have asked the same question yesterday in the packagers mailing list:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-March/thread.html
I am sorry, I thought that you were on that list as well, or else I would
have CC'ed those messages.
As discussed in that thread I will apply those changes to the R modules that
I have submitted. The consensus was that we shoult stick to GPL and ship the
DESCRIPTION file in %doc.
I have also updated cran2rpmspec to cope with this rules.
http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/jamatos/R/cran2rpmspec
The old version it is still there:
http://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/jamatos/R/cran2rpmspec-1.0
BTW, thank you for reviewing them. :-)
> - J<
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José Abílio
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