On 01/18/2010 06:17 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
The sources of foomatic-filters have a copy of COPYING as only indication of its license. This COPYING file suggests "GPL v2 or later" and as the individual sources files do not have copyright headers this mentioning applies. The author should put COPYING headers as suggested in his .c and .h files of course.
foomatic-filters has: License: GPL v2 or later
in its RPM header. This also matches the internal license scan results.
I talked to our license guys and for "GPL v2 or later" using gs in GPL v3 mode is fine. If those in turn provide libraries, they are however GPL v3 after compilation.
So foomatic-filters is fine to use with the libgs library.
Ciao, Marcus
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.
The built binary package would be under GPLv3 or later license then, yes (and no longer under GPLv2 or later). If in turn this would provide libraries the dependend packages would also turn into that.
Please do not think so much about licenses, it will just make your head explode if not carefully studied over the years ;)
Ciao, Marcus
That's completed my license education, now for something new :-) Thanks for the help. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org