GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 13:30:45 UTC 2007


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:22:30 -0400
Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:

> I think this is wrong, I am sorry I didn't catch it before, but if
> COPYING is not just a mere copy of the GPL license as published by the
> FSF, but it is actually an obviously edited file which express the
> intention of the Author, it do matter by all means, and it express the
> license you should use.
> Of course conflicts with the license in single source files have to be
> resolved, but if source files lack any mention of the license version
> they are under, what matter is what's in COPYING. IMO IANAL

But what if the file isn't modified, and is obviously a verbatim copy
from the webpage?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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