GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660004
suboptimal licensing statement used
Last modified: 2018-01-05 12:09:33 UTC
The file composer/e-msg-composer.c (and possibly more files) have the following license statement: * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) version 3. Technically there never was a Lesser General Public License 2. When LGPL 2 was released 'L' stood for 'Library'. When 2.1 was released it was renamed to 'Lesser' and it has remained that ever since. The current license statement is technically incorrect and it leads to mismatches when scanning the code with for example FOSSology. It would be great if the license statement could be corrected. Please talk to the GNOME lawyers or Karen Sandler from GNOME about this.
...or gnome-legal mailing list.
it's a legal-list, where I sent my question about how to change it.
I believe we should just change the 2 to 2.1, as: * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3. Statutory Warning: IANAL
CC'ing Karen - maybe she can comment on this.
with b21733d06715597b189c4271a2e9d625f5fc2345 the license statement of many files got updated. Does that fix this issue?
(In reply to Tobias Mueller from comment #5) > with b21733d06715597b189c4271a2e9d625f5fc2345 the license statement of many > files got updated. Does that fix this issue? No reply. Assuming yes.