GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 13:40:05 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
if the source doesn't say something else (nothing) it is whatever is 
stated in COPYING. (IANAL)




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