Bug 55433 – wine licence is LGPL-2.1 not GPL-2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Henrik Sankala 2004-06-28 08:28:49 UTC]

The ebuilds for wine says the license is GPL-2, which it isn't, it's LGPL-2.1.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-07-08 07:30:01 UTC]

more /var/tmp/portage/wine-20040615/work/wine-20040615/LICENSE
Copyright (c) 1993-2004 the Wine project authors (see the file AUTHORS
for a complete list)

Wine 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 2.1 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License is included in the
Wine distribution in the file COPYING.LIB. If you did not receive this
copy, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-07-08 07:30:31 UTC]

sorry, wrong closed

[Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-07-08 07:33:00 UTC]

in cvs