Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537325 --- Comment #5 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> 2009-12-09 03:40:57 EDT --- You're contradicting yourself, and the thread on fedora-legal-list is not accurate and could be called "false advice". > the effective license is > the most restrictive one, which in this case is GPLv2. Then your package still cannot use "License: GPLv2+" as one source file remains GPLv2 and others remain LGPLv2+. License conversion is not implicit. Copying source code that applies license 1 into a project that applies license 2 does not automatically convert their licensing to anything like the "most restrictive one" or "the effective license". With regard to the GPL, to convert from one license to another means to re-license explicitly and in accordance with the current licensing terms. For a one-time conversion from LGPLv2+ to GPL this means to alter all notices that refer to the old license. The GPLv2 licensed file has further consequences as long as it is not converted to GPLv2+. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#GPL_Compatibility_Matrix Simply by building a program from a mixed sources project, you cannot alter/hide the licensing that applies to the program. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review