[Fedora-legal-list] Inconsistent licensing

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri May 3 04:06:43 UTC 2013


I'm packaging StarCluster for Fedora 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949371) and I'm running 
into some questions about the licensing.

README.rst and setup.py and PKG-INFO indicates LGPLv3

The only python files with a header indicate:
starcluster/progressbar.py: LGPL (v2.1 or later)
starcluster/sshutils/scp.py: LGPL (v2.1 or later)

And then of course there are the jquery bundled js libs, which are dual 
MIT and GPLv2:

./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: * Dual licensed under the MIT 
or GPL Version 2 licenses.
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: * http://jquery.org/license
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: * Released under the MIT, BSD, 
and GPL Licenses.
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: *  Released under the MIT, 
BSD, and GPL Licenses.
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.js: * Released under the MIT 
license by IOLA, December 2007.
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.js: * Released under the MIT 
license by Ole Laursen, October 2009.
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.navigate.js:Licensed under 
the MIT License ~ http://threedubmedia.googlecode.com/files/MIT-LICENSE.txt
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.navigate.js: * Dual licensed 
under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.navigate.js: * and GPL 
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php) licenses.

So, does:

LGPLv3 and (MIT or GPLv2)

cover it?  I don't like that the (few) license headers don't match the 
other license comments.

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Orion Poplawski
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NWRA/CoRA Division                    FAX: 303-415-9702
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