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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: xfsprogs/xfsdump: what flavor of GPL...?
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:02:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C3CC46.8030005@redhat.com> (raw)

Fedora is making a push to clarify licensing on all packages -

GPL+, GPLv2, GPLv2+, GPLv3, GPLv3+, LGPLv2, LGPLv2+, LGPLv3, LGPLv3+

are the acceptable license tags for rpm packaging at this point. ("+"
means "or later").

Looking, for example, at mkfs/xfs_mkfs.c:

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation.

it makes no mention of GPL _version_.

With all the ruckus lately over GPLv3, could sgi please clarify?  Since
the included COPYING file says LGPL 2.1 and GPL2, I assume that LGPLv2
and GPLv2 are appropriate for the package.

It'd be tedious, but you may wish to specify exactly which version of
the license in the actual source files...

Thanks,

-Eric

             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-16  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-16  4:02 Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-08-17 13:44 ` xfsprogs/xfsdump: what flavor of GPL...? Eric Sandeen

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