Hi,
during the update of the package scummvm I reviewed its license and stumbled over some difficulties:
- the main parts of the source code seem to be GPLv2+:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/branch-2-2/COPYING
- however, parts of scummvm are using a variety of BSD-like licenses as well as LGPLv2+, please see the various COPYING.* files here:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/branch-2-2
As far as I understand, these additional licenses are compatible with GPLv2+.
My concrete question is:
Is there a need to list the other licenses in the "License" tag as well or is "GPLv2+" sufficient? If all licenses need to be listed, would that be in this case:
Note 1: It looks like that the TTF fonts under GPLv3+ (COPYING.FREEFONT) are not installed in Fedora (but they are present in the src package).
Note 2: The Suse distribution seems to use "GPL-2.0+" and Debian has references to all licenses: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main
during the update of the package scummvm I reviewed its license and stumbled over some difficulties:
- the main parts of the source code seem to be GPLv2+:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/branch-2-2/COPYING
- however, parts of scummvm are using a variety of BSD-like licenses as well as LGPLv2+, please see the various COPYING.* files here:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/branch-2-2
As far as I understand, these additional licenses are compatible with GPLv2+.
My concrete question is:
Is there a need to list the other licenses in the "License" tag as well or is "GPLv2+" sufficient? If all licenses need to be listed, would that be in this case:
"GPLv2+ and BSD and LGPLv2.1+ and OFL" ?
Note 1: It looks like that the TTF fonts under GPLv3+ (COPYING.FREEFONT) are not installed in Fedora (but they are present in the src package).
Note 2: The Suse distribution seems to use "GPL-2.0+" and Debian has references to all licenses: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main
/s/scummvm/scummvm_2.2.0+dfsg1-1_copyright
Thank you very much in advance for the advice.
Best regards,
Christian
Thank you very much in advance for the advice.
Best regards,
Christian
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