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[Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?
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Simon Josefsson |
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[Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls? |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:24:37 +0200 |
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue 2008-09-09 12:01:23 -0400, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> I tried to do some systematic searches, but the debian copyright
>> information tends to be incorrect (not mentioning versions) or difficult
>> to parse.
>
> This is sadly true. Automatic resolution of this sort of question
> would be much easier if the machine-readable debian/copyright proposal
> was more widely-adopted:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
I have changed one of my debian packages to use it, and will do the same
for another. Thanks for the pointer.
> And cups appears to be ambiguous as far as the GPL'ed bits (though the
> LGPL'ed bits are pretty clearly V2-only):
>
> [0 address@hidden ~]$ grep -A6 ^INTRODUCTION
> /usr/share/doc/cups-common/copyright
> INTRODUCTION
>
> The Common UNIX Printing System(tm), ("CUPS(tm)"), is provided
> under the GNU General Public License ("GPL") and GNU Library
> General Public License ("LGPL"), Version 2, with exceptions for
> Apple operating systems and the OpenSSL toolkit. A copy of the
> exceptions and licenses follow this introduction.
> [0 address@hidden ~]$
>
> I couldn't come up with an automated way to pull the answers to these
> questions out of debian automatically either :(
Looking at the source code headers in CUPS indicate a somewhat confusing
situation. At least some of the files definitely just reference version
2 though.
/Simon
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, (continued)
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/09
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- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/09
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2008/09/09
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- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, David Marín Carreño, 2008/09/10
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Stephane Bortzmeyer, 2008/09/10
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Stephane Bortzmeyer, 2008/09/10
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?, Simon Josefsson, 2008/09/10
- [Help-gnutls] Re: Using LGPLv3+ license for libgnutls?,
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