Fedora Extras License Audit

Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh at farsiweb.info
Wed Jan 24 11:58:29 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:27 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> The "License" field is insufficient. It is suitable for summing up the
> relevant licence acronyms, but it cannot serve as a substitute for the
> licence terms.
> 
> If files included within a project are GPL'ed and other files are licensed
> under a different licence, the combined work must be GPL'ed, too. It
> cannot be LGPL'ed, because the LGPL is _less_ restrictive compared with
> the GPL. For LGPL, all files must be LGPL'ed.

OK, I just opened a bug for Pango and CC-ed you and spot:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224135

Roozbeh





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