[Bug 702987] Review Request: stdair - C++ Standard Airline IT Library

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--- Comment #9 from Denis Arnaud <denis.arnaud_fedora@xxxxxxx> 2011-07-30 20:17:45 EDT ---
Regarding the license, the Fedora licensing page
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses) has got the
following comment:
"A GPL or LGPL licensed package that lacks any statement of what version that
it's licensed under in the source code/program output/accompanying docs is
technically licensed under *any* version of the GPL or LGPL, not just the
version in whatever COPYING file they include. Note that this is LGPLv2+, not
LGPL+, because version 2 was the first version of LGPL. Note that this license
was originally referred to as the GNU Library General Public License v2, but
all current versions (v2.1 or newer) of the license are correctly known as the
GNU Lesser General Public License."

It is confirmed by the Fedora license FAQ
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FAQ#How_do_I_figure_out_what_version_of_the_GPL.2FLGPL_my_package_is_under.3F):
"LGPLv2 says: If the Library does not specify a license version number, you may
choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."

In the case of the StdAir project, since the documentation
(http://stdair.sourceforge.net/copyright.html) is pretty clear, and directly
accessible from the home page (http://stdair.sourceforge.net/) and/or from the
stdair-doc sub-package, the package license is correctly set as LGPLv2+ (since
the copyright notice mentions LGPLv2.1 and the source code files do not further
mention license versions).

Does it sound reasonable?

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