On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:45 PM Orion Poplawski <or...@nwra.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to package x2gokdrive for Fedora (review [1]), but running > into some questions/issues with the licensing: > > 1 - There is no license file in the released tarball > > 2 - The debian/copyright file in the git repo [2] states that the > license is GPL-2+ except for testscripts/* at GPL-2. However, > licensecheck reports: > > ./x2gokdrive.c: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - sell variant > ./x2gokdrive.h: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > ./x2gokdrivecursor.c: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > ./x2gokdriveinit.c: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > ./x2gokdrivelog.h: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - sell > variant > ./x2gokdriveremote.c: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > ./x2gokdriveremote.h: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > ./x2gokdriveselection.c: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > ./x2gokdriveselection.h: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later > > 3 - This code is combined with the Xorg server code which is under the > MIT license. > > > This is quite a mess. I've asked upstream here [3] for some > clarification, but I was hoping that the Fedora folks could speak to > some of this, particularly item #3.
The licensecheck results look accurate as far as detection of license notices goes. If I had to guess, the included debian/copyright file is based on an older version where the x2gokdrive* files used GPLv2-or-later and the project never bothered to update it when they updated the license to GPLv3-or-later (so too with the bundled spec file). For whatever reason, the testscripts indicate GPLv2-only. I would probably assume for simplicity that the Xorg patches are under whatever version(s) of the GPL apply to the project generally, except that's not clear here. But in general your best bet is to try to get the project to explain what's going on, and maybe also persuade them to add one or more license files. Richard > > [1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215421 > [2] - > https://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=x2gokdrive.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/copyright;h=88c3411550b8f79d29f1b9a7a3c20996126375db;hb=HEAD > [3] - https://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-dev/2023-September/014093.html > > Orion > _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
