From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Question about Licenses. Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:15:57 +0200 Message-ID: <877e69qy42.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i9Y8B-00070H-15 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:16:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9Y89-0004Y8-SJ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:16:10 -0400 Received: from sender4-of-o53.zoho.com ([136.143.188.53]:21382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9Y89-0004WY-Fi for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:16:09 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: marinus.savoritias@tuta.io Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Fanis, > The other example is Qbittorrent. > its GPL-2 again in gentoo: > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/qbittorrent > Source is saying GPL-2: > 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