Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (161 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18, 10 17:17:08 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > There's one aspect of ghostscript-8.70 that I don't quite know what to
> > put in the License: part ghostscript-omni is built from Omni which is
> > LGPLv2.1 or later. The gnu chart states that one is allowed to convert
> > LGPLv2.1 or later into GPLv3 and from that I would understand that
> > either all references to LGPLv2.1 must be removed or it's alright to
> > simply put the licence in as GNUv3.

We dont do it like that, we always keep the original license as is.
Where and how a conversion is needed is always left as an exercise to the
end user, so that the entire construct remains visible.

I believe, that editing a license (even where technically correct) causes
more confustion than good.

> Please do not think so much about licenses, it will just make your head 
> explode
> if not carefully studied over the years ;)

Right. But questions are always welcome. I'll reassign carefully in my
team so that those exposions dont hit important people :-)

        cheers,
                JW-

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