[Fedora-legal-list] binclock license

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 17:43:34 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:57 -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> There is an application that I would like to package for Fedora called
> binclock, but I am having issues getting clarity on the license.
> Sourceforge lists it under the GPL on the project page, but the source
> code does not specify what version. I attempted to email the author
> but it appears his email address has changed as my email was returned
> by the mail server saying that the domain was invalid.
> 
> The application source file from the author has a debian packaging
> directory that lists it as GPLv2 but since that is not specified in
> the source I wasn't sure if it was definitive enough.
> 
> A copy of the source code is located here:
> http://maxamillion.fedorapeople.org/binclock_0.3.2-1.tar.gz
> And the source forge project page is located here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/binclock/

Given that the author wrote the "debian/copyright" file, we can take
that as his intent.

Use:

License: GPLv2

~spot




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