GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 13:55:12 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:22 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
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> I think this is wrong, I am sorry I didn't catch it before, but if
> COPYING is not just a mere copy of the GPL license as published by the
> FSF, but it is actually an obviously edited file which express the
> intention of the Author, it do matter by all means, and it express the
> license you should use.

See my other email for this case, but yes:

If the source code doesn't specify a version, and documentation exists
from upstream that clearly shows the intention of the Author, then that
documentation is valid for determining the license version.

~spot





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