GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!
Roland Wolters
wolters.liste at gmx.net
Thu Aug 16 09:28:14 UTC 2007
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?
Roland
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