From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: marinus.savoritias@tuta.io
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about Licenses.
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:15:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e69qy42.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Lopbqhp--3-1@tuta.io>
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
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-15 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-15 15:51 Question about Licenses marinus.savoritias
2019-09-15 17:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-09-15 18:42 ` marinus.savoritias
2019-09-15 19:06 ` Jesse Gibbons
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