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GPL or LGPL?
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CLOSED: FIXED

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Description Bernhard Walle 2007-02-11 12:46:53 CET
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre
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The COPYING file of libexo says that the license of libexo is GPL. However, there are source files like

         exo-helper/exo-helper-chooser.c
         exo-mount/exo-mount-fstab.c

that have a GPL header. Could you please change them to LGPL or change the license file to GPL?

Of course, that's not important for the 'normal' user, but it _is_ important for distributors.

Thanks a lot!

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-02-12 17:57:31 CET
Programs are GPL, libraries are LGPL. I don't see what's wrong here. I could change the COPYING text to GPL and add COPYING.LIB if that would make your tools happy?
Comment 2 Pavel Nemec 2007-02-13 13:42:45 CET
(In reply to comment #1)
> Programs are GPL, libraries are LGPL. I don't see what's wrong here. I could
> change the COPYING text to GPL and add COPYING.LIB 
Yes please.


Comment 3 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-05-09 17:31:40 CEST
Fixed with revision 25690.

2007-05-09	Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>

	* COPYING.LIB, COPYING, Makefile.am: Ship LGPL and GPL license
	  files. Bug #2895.

Bug #2895

Reported by:
Bernhard Walle
Reported on: 2007-02-11
Last modified on: 2009-10-09

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