[Bug 537325] Review Request: lv2-fil-plugins - Four-band parametric equalisers

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--- Comment #5 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>  2009-12-09 03:40:57 EDT ---
You're contradicting yourself, and the thread on fedora-legal-list is not
accurate and could be called "false advice".

> the effective license is
> the most restrictive one, which in this case is GPLv2. 

Then your package still cannot use "License: GPLv2+" as one source file remains
GPLv2 and others remain LGPLv2+. License conversion is not implicit. Copying
source code that applies license 1 into a project that applies license 2 does
not automatically convert their licensing to anything like the "most
restrictive one" or "the effective license".

With regard to the GPL, to convert from one license to another means to
re-license explicitly and in accordance with the current licensing terms.  For
a one-time conversion from LGPLv2+ to GPL this means to alter all notices that
refer to the old license.   The GPLv2 licensed file has further consequences as
long as it is not converted to GPLv2+.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPL_Compatibility_Matrix

Simply by building a program from a mixed sources project, you cannot
alter/hide the licensing that applies to the program.

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