licence tag questions

[Hans de Goede]

Zoltan Kota wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>> Zoltan Kota wrote:
> 
>>> Checking the source files of 'recode' I found the following licenses:
>>> mostly GPLv2+, LGPLv2+, and in some files GNU Library General Public 
>>> License. 
>>> According to gnu.org the GNU Library General Public License has been 
>>> succeeded by the GNU Lesser General Public License. 
>>>
>>> What should I use in the License tag??
>>>
> 
>> /usr/bin/foo, build from 5 GPLv2+ files and one LGPLv2+ file -> its GPLv2+
>> /usr/lib/libfoo.so.0, build from 3 LGPLv2+ files -> its LGPLv2+
>>
>> Now if you both of these in the same package then the package gets:
>>
>> License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
>>
>> As it has binaries under 2 different licences in the package
>>
> 
> 
> As much as I could figure out both the util and the lib are built from 
> GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ source files. So they and the package itself are 
> GPLv2+, aren't they?
> 

Yes that would be the case then.

Regards,

Hans