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Bug 481552 - net-im/kf unclear license situation
Summary: net-im/kf unclear license situation
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Net-im project
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Reported: 2013-08-18 15:21 UTC by Julian Ospald
Modified: 2013-09-20 00:44 UTC (History)
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Description Julian Ospald 2013-08-18 15:21:10 UTC
The COPYING file seems to be GPL-2, but the headers in ALL source files say:

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 * License, or (at your option) any later version.


which would be LGPL-2+

However, which one applies is not clear. Maybe upstream just doesn't know their license headers are wrong.


more notes from AUTHORS file:
"The presence icons are available under the GPL, but please give credit
to Youngjin "artwiz" Hahn <artwiz@artramp.org> for creating them.

Contains pieces of artwork from:
	Gabber Jabber client
	gnome-icon-theme
	Crystal icon set"

so those are probably a few other licenses
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-08-18 16:49:09 UTC
Generally, license notices of individual files are more authoritative than a COPYING file. So here it would be LGPL-2.1+ (not LGPL-2+, because there is no version 2 of the GNU _Lesser_ General Public License).

However, I'd suggest that you ask upstream for clarification.

> "The presence icons are available under the GPL, but please give credit
> to Youngjin "artwiz" Hahn <artwiz@artramp.org> for creating them.
> 
> Contains pieces of artwork from:
> 	Gabber Jabber client
> 	gnome-icon-theme
> 	Crystal icon set"
> 
> so those are probably a few other licenses

Also, files src/disclosure-widget.{c,h} and src/gtktip.{c,h} have both a LGPL-2.1+ and a GPL-2+ license notice.
Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2013-08-18 16:51:55 UTC
oh, nice trap between LIBRARY and LESSER :)
Comment 3 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-09-20 00:44:22 UTC
Treecleaned.