GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!
Tomas Janousek
tjanouse at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 14:06:00 UTC 2007
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:47:34AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> COPYING does not signal licensing intent (it might not seem intuitive,
> but this is what Red Hat legal told us, and we're going by that).
>
> [...]
>
> 4. If neither the source, nor the upstream composed documentation says
> anything about the license version, then it could be under _ANY_ version
> of the GPL. The version listed in COPYING is irrelevant from this
> perspective.
If COPYING does not signal licensing intent, why "any version of the GPL", why
not "unknown license, if any" ?
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TJ. (Brno, CZ), BaseOS, Red Hat
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