On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:45 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 11/9/22 11:00 AM, Richard Fontana wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 10:29 AM Arthur Bols <arthur@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm in the progress of migrating the Mooltice [0] package to SPDX, but > >> it proved to be more difficult than anticipated. I would be grateful if > >> someone could review my current analysis. > >> The license tag and accompanying comment I have at the moment is the > >> following: > >> > >> # The entire source code is GPL-3.0-or-later except: > >> # src/qwinoverlappedionotifier.[cpp|h] which is LGPL-3.0 OR > >> GPL-2.0-or-later, > > <projects mountain bike signal onto clouds> > oh my, is this a thing now? > > > > Jilayne, these files actually say LGPLv3 (ambiguous as to later > > versions but let's assume as a matter of common sense the Qt licensors > > intended LGPLv3 only), or: > > > > ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU > > ** General Public License version 2.0 or (at your option) the GNU General > > ** Public license version 3 or any later version approved by the KDE Free > > ** Qt Foundation. > > > > That is not equivalent to GPL-2.0-or-later, if you assume it is > > possible the KDE Free Qt Foundation might not approve the FSF's GPLv4, > > say; how should this be represented as an SPDX expression? Should a > > new GPL exception be submitted to SPDX? Is it even what SPDX would > > classify as an "exception"? Does there need to be a 'Qt GPL' SPDX > > identifier to cover this case, which I think is unique to Qt? Should > > we just represent it as 'GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only'? (Surprised if > > this hasn't come up before in an SPDX context.) > Are we talking about the proxy issue with KDE as discussed here: > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/928 ? Yes. Oh lord, does this mean we need a LicenseRef-(RedHat|Fedora)-KDE-Accepted-(GPL|LGPL) local exception set? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
