CGAL license change to (L)GPLv3+

[Laurent Rineau]

> From release 4.0, the CGAL libraries will be released under LGPLv3+
> for the  
foundations, and GPLv3+ for the high level packages (instead of LGPLv2 and
QPL 
respectively).

I have built a prerelease of CGAL-4.0 in Rawhide.

-- 
Laurent Rineau
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau

[Laurent Rineau]

Le mardi 07 février 2012 14:21:53 Laurent Rineau a écrit :
>  From release 4.0, the CGAL libraries will be released under LGPLv3+
> for the
>  foundations, and GPLv3+ for the high level packages (instead of LGPLv2 and
>  QPL respectively). 
In the CGAL.spec file, I mentionned "License: LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+". Could not I 
simplify that into: "License: GPLv3+"?

-- 
Laurent Rineau
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 15:29 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
>  Le mardi 07 février 2012 14:21:53 Laurent Rineau a écrit :
>  > From release 4.0, the CGAL libraries will be released under LGPLv3+ for the
>  > foundations, and GPLv3+ for the high level packages (instead of LGPLv2 and
>  > QPL respectively).
>  
>  In the CGAL.spec file, I mentionned "License: LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+". Could not I
>
>  simplify that into: "License: GPLv3+"? 
You should probably ask this question on the fedora-legal mailing list
(on Cc).

Nils
-- 
Nils Philippsen      "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase 
Red Hat               a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty
nils(a)redhat.com       nor Safety."  --  Benjamin Franklin, 1759
PGP fingerprint:      C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F  656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011

[Fedora-legal-list] CGAL license change to (L)GPLv3+

[Tom Callaway]

On 02/13/2012 09:42 AM, Nils Philippsen wrote:
>  On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 15:29 +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > Le mardi 07 février 2012 14:21:53 Laurent Rineau a écrit :
> >> From release 4.0, the CGAL libraries will be released under LGPLv3+ for the
> >> foundations, and GPLv3+ for the high level packages (instead of LGPLv2 and
> >> QPL respectively).
> >
> > In the CGAL.spec file, I mentionned "License: LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+". Could
> not I 
> > simplify that into: "License: GPLv3+"?
>  
>  You should probably ask this question on the fedora-legal mailing list
>  (on Cc). 
Without looking at the code, the answer is "maybe".

If the libraries are composed of a combination of LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+
sources, then it would be accurate to simplify to "License: GPLv3+".

If the package contains some libraries under LGPLv3+, and some binaries
which are under GPLv3+, then "License: LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+" is appropriate.

Hope that helps,

~tom

==
Fedora Project