GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Aug 16 05:02:56 UTC 2007
seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:01 -0400, 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.
>>
>> You have to use one of the following tags:
>>
>> GPL+, GPLv2, GPLv2+, GPLv3, GPLv3+, LGPLv2, LGPLv2+, LGPLv3, LGPLv3+
>>
>
> seahorse contains both GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ components
>
> should I have it labeled as both?
>
That depends, do any of the build binaries contain only LGPLv2+ parts? If not,
then the GPL trumps the LGPL and the license tag should be just:
License: GPLv2+
If there are binaries which are build from LGPL code only, and these are in the
same rpm, then it would be:
License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
However, assuming that the LGPL licensed stuff is a lib, which not only gets
used during building, but also installed under /usr/lib[64], then please
concider doing a -libs subpackage and use "License: GPL+" for the main package
and "License: LGPLv2+" for the -libss and -devel sub-packages. The idea behind
this tags is that interpackage licensing issues can be checked by a script, using:
License: GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Is not going to help this script, resulting in people still needing to check
things manually.
Regards,
Hans (Who has 2 packages of his 150 left todo and then the License tagging
operation is completed for me).
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