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Bug 781036 - Licensing cleanup
Licensing cleanup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-games
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Games maintainers
GNOME Games maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-04-07 14:08 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2017-04-15 21:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Fix license in file headers (81.48 KB, patch)
2017-04-09 13:09 UTC, Adrien Plazas
committed Details | Review
appdata: Fix the project license (936 bytes, patch)
2017-04-09 13:09 UTC, Adrien Plazas
committed Details | Review
icons: Fix some metadata (4.91 KB, patch)
2017-04-09 13:09 UTC, Adrien Plazas
committed Details | Review
nintendo-ds: Add the source of the icon extractor (808 bytes, patch)
2017-04-09 13:09 UTC, Adrien Plazas
committed Details | Review

Description Jeremy Bicha 2017-04-07 14:08:43 UTC
Hi, while packaging gnome-games-app for Debian, I noticed some licensing discrepancies. The licenses are fine (you can license your software however you wish and the licensing is not a problem for distribution in Debian), but from the conversation on IRC, it sounds like they may not be intentional. I'm filing a bug so that this is easier to track.

1. The org.gnome.Games.svg app icons have metadata that says they are CC-BY-SA-3.0.

2. All of the Vala files that have licensing info say they are licensed as GPLv3 (that's GPL-3 only). On the other hand, the appdata metadata claims the project is GPL-2+.
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2017-04-08 04:07:39 UTC
3. flatpak/libretro-cores/gambatte.libretro should list the license as GPL-2.0 not GPL-2.0+
Comment 2 Adrien Plazas 2017-04-09 13:09:19 UTC
Created attachment 349554 [details] [review]
Fix license in file headers

Replace mention of GPLv3 by GPL-3.0+ as initially intended in the file
headers.
Comment 3 Adrien Plazas 2017-04-09 13:09:26 UTC
Created attachment 349555 [details] [review]
appdata: Fix the project license

Remove mention of "and GPL-2.0+" as the project as a whole is GPL-3.0+
only.
Comment 4 Adrien Plazas 2017-04-09 13:09:31 UTC
Created attachment 349556 [details] [review]
icons: Fix some metadata

Fix the authors, name, tags and license of different org.gnome.Games.svg
files. Make the license match the one of the project: GPL-3.0+.
Comment 5 Adrien Plazas 2017-04-09 13:09:37 UTC
Created attachment 349557 [details] [review]
nintendo-ds: Add the source of the icon extractor
Comment 6 Adrien Plazas 2017-04-09 13:14:50 UTC
Attachment 349554 [details] pushed as eab52b3 - Fix license in file headers
Attachment 349555 [details] pushed as a9cc132 - appdata: Fix the project license
Attachment 349556 [details] pushed as 537f4a2 - icons: Fix some metadata
Attachment 349557 [details] pushed as 50cbf29 - nintendo-ds: Add the source of the icon extractor
Comment 7 Jeremy Bicha 2017-04-15 21:05:46 UTC
Thanks. Do you want to make retro-gtk GPL-3+ also? (it's currently GPL-3 only, according to the source file headers)