[Fedora-legal-list] Please define "effective license" (for the love of consistency)

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> 1) I came across another review with the same license question. The
>> source files have one of the
>> GPLv2, GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ headers each. They get compiled and produce
>> 1 final binary executable. None of the headers (or other source code
>> files) go to the final RPM.
>>
>> What goes to the license tag of the package?
>>
>> Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537325#c4
>>
>> 2) Hypothetical question (although happens rather frequently): What if
>> there was a -devel subpackage and .h files with different licenses
>> ended up in this -devel subpackage?
>
> Aren't both questions answered pretty well by
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines ?
>

Nope. I wouldn't ask if they were.

Orcan