2009/5/5 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 05/01/2009 01:14 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: >> Good day. >> >> I try to become a new packager for Fedora and face a license that >> needs to be checked. >> The Main package is Newsbeuter MIT/X license and the needed lib is >> "stfl" with a LGPLv3 license, supplemented by additional permissions. > > Thomas, > > The stfl library is licensed under the normal LGPLv3 license (its > actually LGPLv3+). I think the thing that confused you is where the > LGPLv3 license text says: > > " This version of the GNU Lesser General Public License incorporates > the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public > License, supplemented by the additional permissions listed below." Yes, that confused me :) Sorry, new packager, trying to make everything correct. > The LGPLv3 is just the GPLv3 with some extra permission grants. The stfl > upstream did not modify the LGPLv3 at all. :) So, it is fine for Fedora. Yippiieee, thank you :) Have a good day :) -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
