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Bug 628386 - The COPYING file words it is GPLv3, actually it is GPLv2&LGPLv2
The COPYING file words it is GPLv3, actually it is GPLv2&LGPLv2
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-utils
Classification: Deprecated
Component: baobab
2.30.x
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Fabio Marzocca
gnome-utils Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-31 03:27 UTC by Jeff Cai
Modified: 2010-08-31 12:07 UTC
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Description Jeff Cai 2010-08-31 03:27:23 UTC 
I found that the COPYING file says gnome-utils is licensed in GPLv3. I
think this is wrong since the words in all source files says 'GPLv2' or
'LGPLv2'.

The COPYING file was perhaps produced automatically by some scripts
which incorrectly set the license to GPLv3 by default. It would be
better if the maintainer could fix this license issue in order for
avoiding confusion.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2010-08-31 11:49:42 UTC 
Actually all files have the or-later clause, so it's in fact not incorrect to say it's GPL3(+).

That said, the reasons COPYING is GPL3 in the tarballs is that there is no COPYING file in git, so the autotools put its default of GPL3 there.
Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2010-08-31 12:07:29 UTC 
Added the following COPYING documents:

  • COPYING: for applications
  • COPYING.libs: for libraries

Also, I renamed COPYING-DOCS to COPYING.docs for the documentation; currently we still ship the GNU FDL 1.1 documentation, but when we switch to Mallard we'll also switch to a CC license.