GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Wart wart at kobold.org
Thu Aug 16 05:12:05 UTC 2007


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Got your attention? Good.
> 
> GPL and LGPL are NOT acceptable License tags for Fedora. You cannot
> simply use "GPL" or "LGPL" as a license tag anymore.
> 
> You have to use one of the following tags:
> 
> GPL+, GPLv2, GPLv2+, GPLv3, GPLv3+, LGPLv2, LGPLv2+, LGPLv3, LGPLv3+
> 
> GPL+: If there is no version specified anywhere, and it only says GPL,
> then it is GPL+. It is also GPL+ if the code is licensed as "GPL version
> 1 or later".
> 
> GPLv2: If the code only says "version 2 of the License." and does NOT
> say "or later version", then it is GPLv2 only.
> 
[...]
> 
> NOTE: Don't trust COPYING. Look at the source code itself.

I've got ~40 packages to go through, so this may take a while. Any 
offers of help are appreciated.

abe contains only a COPYING file that says 'Version 2', and no copyright 
or license info in the source files themselves.  In the absence of 
anything in the source files, does this qualify abe for 'GPL+' or 'GPLv2'?

--Wart




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