On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 06:47:47AM +0100, Mattia Verga wrote: > But what about if the package carries a > Copyright.txt file which says "license: GPL-3"? Does it wins over source > headers? It really depends on the circumstances, but if all the source file notices say "GPLv3 or later" I would probably assume that the entire program is GPLv3-or-later even if this is not explicit in the global copyright file. > I'm asking because I'm in this situation while packaging "Indistarter" in > Fedora. I'm now waiting for a clarification about the software author, but I > would like to know what to say him for fixing this situation. Does he have > to change source headers if he want to ship as GPLv3 only? There's no such > case on gnu.org as it seems that the only option complied is GPLv3+. I took a look myself (if this is the 'indistarter' project hosted on SourceForge) and I would conclude it's GPLv3-or-later since the source files bearing the project maintainer's copyright and license notices all use "or later" (bare 'GPLv3' only appears in files with license metadata), and there's nothing I could see that suggested there was 'GPLv3 only' code. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
