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Bug 547117 - hamster/idle.c is under GPLv2 only
hamster/idle.c is under GPLv2 only
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: hamster-applet
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.23.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Patryk Zawadzki
hamster-applet-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-09 23:11 UTC by Tim Retout
Modified: 2008-08-10 16:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Tim Retout 2008-08-09 23:11:06 UTC 
I was writing a debian/copyright file, and found the header of hamster/idle.c:

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
 * by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 only.

With hamster-applet being under GPLv3 or later, this causes a problem. Unless you have some other arrangement with the Gajim authors (in which case the header should be changed in SVN to make this clear), hamster-applet is not distributable.

You could either negotiate with the authors to relicense this file, or drop it entirely and do idle tracking a different way.
Comment 1 Patryk Zawadzki 2008-08-10 16:09:58 UTC 
Contacted Gajim devs (I know some of them as I used to contribute to the Gajim project):

http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/4187
Comment 2 Patryk Zawadzki 2008-08-10 16:52:27 UTC 
I've dropped the C code for now to ask gnome-screensaver over DBus. Feel free to use the current SVN trunk or wait for the upcoming 2.23.90 release.

This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.