[Fedora-legal-list] Proper license field for GPL aggregation

[Tom Callaway]

On 03/12/2011 11:42 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> If a package's source is under a GPL-compatible license (say MIT), and 
> it links against a GPL library (say readline's GPLv3+), what should the 
> license field say? Maybe "MIT and GPLv3", with a comment explaining 
> which library pulls in the GPLv3 requirement?

We don't try to calculate licensing across linkage in a package. Just
use the license of the code that goes directly into the binaries within
your package. So, in your example, it would be just "MIT".

~tom

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