[Bug 639594] Review Request: scout - A CLI interface to Tomboy notes and Gnote

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Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking at uos.de> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Martin Gieseking <martin.gieseking at uos.de> 2010-10-10 14:23:08 EDT ---
Just a few informational comments on the licensing scenario:

The crucial source for determining the license of a (binary) package is the
information given in the source tarball. The website or any other external
resources are more or less irrelevant here. Nonetheless, the upstream author
should certainly be encouraged to keep the information on the project website
up-to-date.

(In reply to comment #6)
> The spec file says that the license is "LGPLv2 and Copyright only"

Yes, this should be replaced with BSD.


> LICENSE file claims that the software is GPLv2, except for "format-subst.pl"
> which is under a GNU LGPLv2",

No, everything is *BSD* except format-subst.pl. The header comment of
format-subst.pl says the file is under LGPLv2+. However, as far as I see, the
perl file is not packaged. Thus, its license can be ignored.


> But I couldn't find the BSD license included in the sources. 

The BSD license text (3 clause variant) is listed at the top of file LICENSE.


> Neither of source file contains any license notice.

Right, this should be fixed upstream, but it's not a blocker here.

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