GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 655293
Aisleriot includes LGPL code but no copyright notice
Last modified: 2011-08-23 12:15:03 UTC
Originally mentioned at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813428 Aisleriot claims to be completely GPL-3+ except for the documentation which is GFDL. However, src/prop-editor.c and src/prop-editor.h are LGPL-2+. I believe updating COPYING-README and including a copy of the LGPL-2 which satisfy the license requirements. Ubuntu is waiting to package aisleriot until this issue is resolved and a new tarball is generated.
I fail to see the problem. These are copypasted files that have a LGPL2+ header, but the whole of aisleriot is distributed as GPL3+ (and ships a copy of that licence). The LGPL2 specifically allows distributing the file under the GPL2+.
Hi, thanks for replying. The way I read paragraph 3 of the LGPL2, you are free to relicense LGPL2 files under the GPL3 but you must update the copyright headers in those files so that they say GPL3 instead of LGPL2.
Fixed on master. (Relicensed all our own code to GPL3+, but kept the LGPL for copypasted code and added the LGPL3 file.)
Please add COPYING.LGPL3 to your Makefile. Thanks!