[Bug 985916] Review Request: compat-gtkhtml314 - GtkHTML library

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985916

--- Comment #4 from Peter Ajamian <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
Manually reviewing the licensing in the files:

gtkhtml/htmlentity.c is listed as "Unknown or generated", it has a clear LGPL2+
header in it, but it is part way down in the file.

ltmain.sh is generated from libtool and does actually have a GPL2+ license
header with an exception which says that the generated file can be included
under the same terms as the rest of the program.

I don't think it's right or correct to modify the licensing headers of upstream
sources, even simply to correct the FSF address.  The license of the sources
taken as a whole is pretty clear that it's LGPL2+ for the libraries and GPL2+
for the executables.

Please note also that these exact sources have been distributed by Fedora in
the past, continue to be distributed by Fedora in the archives, and newer
versions of these sources are currently distributed by Fedora in all current
versions up to and including rawhide.  If there's a problem with the licensing
here then it really needs to be reviewed for all versions of this package that
have been and continue to be distributed by Fedora and will affect many many
other packages that depend on these libs as well (both past and present).

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