[Fedora-packaging] Licensing guidelines suggestions
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 13:48:23 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:33 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> I presume, though it's not explicitly stated, that GPL+ can also be used
> where the license is explicitly given as "GPL version 1 or later" (e.g.
> for perl and all same-as-perl licensed modules)?
Yes, this correct.
> Similarly, I take LGPL+ to be suitable for packages licensed as "LGPL v2
> (not 2.1) or later" as well as for LGPL of unspecified version?
Not quite:
LGPL+ is only for unversioned LGPL (I've never seen this, but it's
possible).
LGPLv2+ is for LGPL 2/2.1 or later.
~spot
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