Jean Bréfort pisze: > Le jeudi 06 septembre 2007 à 22:59 +0200, Julian Sikorski a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> the new guidelines for Fedora packages require specific descriptions of >> the software licenses. While GPL was enough in the past, now the >> specific version is required, as is the possibility of relicensing under >> later versions (the “or later” phrase). So far, I have adjusted the >> license tag to GPLv2+. Is that correct? I.e., can every file in the >> source be relicensed under a later GPL version? Thanks for the info in >> advance. > > I think yes, I copy the license info from file to file, so it should be > the same everywhere, except in the canvas library, because I use code > from libgnomecanvas there. Some files here are LGPLv2+ and some are not > GPL at all (gcp-canvas-path.* and possibly others), they have just the > same license than their counterpart in gnome-canvas. Plans are to use > another canvas in the future. > Also we depend upon libgoffice wich is GPLv2 with no '+', see > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463248 > >> Regards, >> Julian >> >> P.S. >> I am looking into the rpmlint warnings issue right now. So far it seems >> to be a false positive, since running the validation tool against >> gchempaint returns (among others): >> W: gchempaint unused-direct-shlib-dependency >> /usr/lib64/libgcpcanvas-0.8.2.so /usr/lib64/libgcu.so.0 >> And it seems unlikely to me that gchempaint is not using libgcu. > > Not sure, gchempaint uses libgchempaint which uses libgcu, but there > might be no direct dependency. Anyway, this kind of issue is probably > general in the GNOME world, since everybody uses pfkconfig in the same > way. > > Cheers, > Jean > > OK, thanks. I'll look into the source and clarify the license. As for the rpmlint warnings, I think that a good idea is to wait until somebody files a bug report @ redhat bugzilla, since he might know how to solve that.
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