On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM Pavol Sloboda via legal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have recently been looking into the CMake files of the galera package 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?
The issue you're raising is that the source files generally have a copyright notice but no license notice, but I'd say it's pretty clear that these source files are covered by GPLv2 given the global LICENSE and COPYING files and the statement about GPLv2 licensing in the README. Some would say what they've done (that is, bothering to put a copyright notice in individual source files but *not* bothering to also include a license notice) is a bad practice but it's not entirely unusual. You could imagine other situations with different details where it might be an issue. Richard -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
