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Re: Question about Licenses.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Question about Licenses. |
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Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:15:57 +0200 |
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Hi Fanis,
> The other example is Qbittorrent.
> its GPL-2 again in gentoo:
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/qbittorrent
> <https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/qbittorrent>
> Source is saying GPL-2:
> https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/COPYING
> <https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/COPYING>
> but Guix is saying GPL-2+ again.
It is correct that the repository contains a copy of the text of version
2 of the GPL in COPYING. The source files, however, have a license
header that states that version 2 of the license or any later version
applies. See for example
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/src/base/asyncfilestorage.cpp
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Ricardo