GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 14:09:30 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:47 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> NOTE: COPYING does
> not count as documentation, since the author(s) didn't write it.
> 4. If neither the source, nor the upstream composed documentation says
> anything about the license version, then it could be under _ANY_
> version
> of the GPL. The version listed in COPYING is irrelevant from this
> perspective. 

I am sure it is worth mentioning that this is true when COPYING is
copied over mindlessly and not modified, while if it has obviously been
modified by the author it counts as documentation.

Simo.




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