[Fedora-legal-list] Please define "effective license" (for the love of consistency)

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed Dec 9 21:34:22 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 1) I came across another review with the same license question. The
> source files have one of the
> GPLv2, GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ headers each. They get compiled and produce
> 1 final binary executable. None of the headers (or other source code
> files) go to the final RPM.
> 
> What goes to the license tag of the package?
> 
> Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537325#c4
> 
> 2) Hypothetical question (although happens rather frequently): What if
> there was a -devel subpackage and .h files with different licenses
> ended up in this -devel subpackage?

Aren't both questions answered pretty well by 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/LicensingGuidelines ?




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