Re: xfce4-calculator-plugin: Ambiguous license header

Hi,
I created an issue to track this problem: https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-calculator-plugin/-/issues/7

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

Nov 1, 2022, 05:22 by [email protected]:

> Hi all.
>
> During the process of packaging `xfce4-calculator-plugin` for Debian,
> we noticed that the license headers for source files in panel-plugins
> are ambiguous. Here is one as an example:
>
>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> *  (at your option) any later version.
>> *
>> *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> *  GNU Library General Public License for more details.
>> *
>> *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>> *  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301,
>> *  USA.
>>
>
> First and last paragraph hint that it's packaged under GPL, while the
> middle one refers to LGPL. AFAIK, GNU doesn't allow mixing license
> notices.
>
> Moreover, there is COPYING.LIB in the source tree as a result of this.
> It's not obvious whether the files are licensed under GPL or LPGL.
>
> Was it a copy-and-paste mistake initially or am I missing something
> here? Which one am I supposed to choose? Should I include both in the
> binary package? Please clarify the situation.
>
> Regards,
> Akbar.
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