The GPL is a license for copyrighted works, so we expect it to be
combined with a copyright statement. Normally, there is also a notice
like the one recommended at
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC4, but I don’t
see any reason to assume that the files with just a copyright statement
are licensed differently from the software as a whole in this case.
(Note that I’m answering only as an experienced packager, and I have no
special standing to answer legal questions in Fedora.)
- Ben Beasley (FAS: music)
On 7/21/25 9:26 AM, Pavol Sloboda via legal wrote:
Hello,
I have recently been looking into the CMake files of the galera
package <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/galera> and I have
found this line in multiple of the files:
# Copyright (C) 2020 Codership Oy <[email protected]>
and after searching the fedora packaging guidelines for whether
specifying a copyright while the whole package is licensed under
GPL-2.0-only is an issue I have found nothing on the matter.
So my questions are: Is this an issue? And are cases like this
documented somewhere in the packaging guidelines?
Best regards.
Pavol Sloboda.
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