GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Aug 16 10:03:00 UTC 2007


On Thursday 16 August 2007, Roland Wolters wrote:
> Once upon a time Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > Got your attention? Good.
> >
> > GPL and LGPL are NOT acceptable License tags for Fedora. You cannot
> > simply use "GPL" or "LGPL" as a license tag anymore.
> > [...]
> > NOTE: Don't trust COPYING. Look at the source code itself.
>
> So now I have "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
> later version" in my source files. Should be clear GPLv2+ you might guess.
> However, KDE and of course Qt are clearly GPLv2 only.
>
> So what should I add now in the licecen tag?

GPLv2+, I think.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LicenseClarification




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