Bug 482802 – games-puzzle/monsterz unclear license situation

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Julian Ospald 2013-08-28 14:19:55 UTC]

# monsterz --version
monsterz 0.7.1
Written by Sam Hocevar, music by MenTaLguY, sound effects by Sun Microsystems,
Inc., Michael Speck, David White and the Battle for Wesnoth project, Mike
Kershaw and Sam Hocevar.

Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Sam Hocevar <[e-mail]>
          (C) 1998 MenTaLguY <[e-mail]>
          (C) 2002, 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
          (C) Michael Speck <[e-mail]>
          (C) 2003 by David White <[e-mail]> and the
              Battle for Wesnoth project
          (C) Mike Kershaw <[e-mail]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the WTFPL, Version 2, as
published by Sam Hocevar. See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ for more details.
The sound effects are released under their own licences: applause.wav and
pop.wav are covered by the LGPL, the others are covered by the GPL.

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It doesn't say which LGPL or GPL version. I have sent an email to the author of the program.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2013-08-28 17:07:03 UTC]

(In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #0)
> It doesn't say which LGPL or GPL version. I have sent an email to the author
> of the program.

The GPL and LGPL themselves say how this case should be handled:
"If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."

So it's GPL-1+ and LGPL-2+.

[Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2013-08-28 17:48:23 UTC]

+  28 Aug 2013; Julian Ospald <[e-mail]> monsterz-0.7.1-r2.ebuild,
+  monsterz-0.7.1-r3.ebuild:
+  fix licenses wrt #482802