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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