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

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--- Comment #7 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>  2009-12-09 05:26:41 EDT ---
These are situations that make bad thoughts creep into my brain. :-/

The "effective license" once more? Huh? That's another term for "WTF? We don't
care about proper licensing of a program". A term that cannot be found in
Fedora's Licensing Guidelines. - I'm not a lawyer. Spot isn't one either. But
it doesn't need a lawyer to come up with a case of a mixed-source program that
is based on GPL'ed files and LGPL'ed files doing most of the work. The FSF
wants program licenses to be applied in a clear, unambiguous way (which is also
one reason why they distinguish between copying source code and linking with
external libraries). And what do we do? We make up an "effective license" and
pretend that the program is subject to the GPL only while actually parts of it
apply the more liberal [less free!] LGPL. Uh, come on! Fedora's Licensing
guidelines explicitly ask for "maintainers [to] make every possible effort to
be accurate when filling the License: field". 

[...]

I've sent a message to the lv2fil author, pointing out the mixed-source
licensing and suggesting a clarification and conversion to GPLv2 or later.

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