GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 14:27:00 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 07:16 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > 4. COPYING modified, source specify version: check for conflicts, more
> > restrictive wins (also a good idea is to contact the authors to
> > recompose the conflicts)
> > 5. COPYING modified, source does not specify anything: COPYING wins
> > 6. COPYING modified, source lack only the version: COPYING wins
> 
> 
> in these cases you have a bigger problem btw since the COPYING file
> doesn't allow modification of the core of it at least...

I am not saying the author have changed the license, I am saying the
author has *added* comments like:

"And BTW all the code is GPLv2 only"

or

"And I mean GPLv2 OR LATER here, no matter what the source say"

Simo.




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