[Bug 598688] Review Request: archivemount - FUSE based filesystem for mounting compressed archives

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Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi> 2010-06-19 02:47:06 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks Mark and Randall,
> 
> I guess the should be licensed as LGPLv2+ according to the included COPYING
> file and the man-page. In the header of archivemount.c following is written:
> 
> This program can be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. See the file
> COPYING.
> 
> This only mentions the GPL itself, but redirects to the COPYING file.

The source code is always the authoritative source. Now it doesn't mention
anything else than GPL, so the License: tag must be set to GPL+.

Furthermore, in this case COPYING does not contain any statement of the like
"Archivemount is free software and is distributed under the terms of the Gnu
Library General Public License, version 2 (and any later version)"; it just
contains the LGPL. So there is no conflict here.

I don't know if the man page can be thought to be legally binding.

I recommend that you ask upstream to clarify the license in the source code
header. Until they reply, the license tag should reflect the license header in
the source code: GPL+.

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