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Garcon licensing issues
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RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Pavol Rusnak 2010-02-11 09:20:00 CET
The COPYING file states that libgarcon is licensed under the LGPLv2.1 or later.
Nearly all files have LGPL header, but garcon/garcon-menu-node.c contains the following:

/*-
 * Copyright (c) 2009 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org>.
 *
 * 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; either version 2 of the License, or (at
 * your option) any later version.
...

I suppose this is just an overlook and suggest to fix license in the mentioned file header.

However, if the header is correct, you have to include also GPLv2 license in the package and the whole package will become GPLv2+ licensed.  This could cause unexpected problems for 'downstream' developers expecting it to be LGPLv2.1+.
Comment 1 Pavol Rusnak 2010-03-12 14:34:57 CET
Ping? The problem is still the same with 0.1.1
Comment 2 Lionel Le Folgoc 2010-10-31 23:28:06 CET
Ping again?
This is probably a simple copy/paste mistake in the header, but license issues are a bit blocking for inclusion in distributions (stepped onto it when preparing the ubuntu/debian package). Thanks!
Comment 3 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2010-11-01 16:40:44 CET
Hm, yeah, that's a copy+paste issue. I'll fix it.
Comment 4 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-11-03 18:45:19 CET
Fixed in bbad1fc.

Bug #6226

Reported by:
Pavol Rusnak
Reported on: 2010-02-11
Last modified on: 2010-11-03

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Jannis Pohlmann
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