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From: Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz@altlinux.org>
To: ALT Linux Team development discussions <devel@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [devel] c-icap, c-icap-modules, License tag
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:24:02 +0300 (MSK)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.2002180014580.6363@imap.altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202002172335.14798.asy@altlinux.org>

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Hello!

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, Sergey Y. Afonin wrote:

> Очередная неточность попалась. С c-icap более-менее понятно.
> В COPYING LGPL 2.1, в некоторых исходных файлах, где вообще
> про лицензию пишут, написано 
> 
>  *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>  *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>  *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>  *  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> 
> Так что тут, видимо, LGPL-2.1-or-later. А вот с c-icap-modules интереснее.
> В исходниках тоже LGPL 2.1 or any later version, но вот в COPYING лежит
> GPL 2. Автору писать, похоже?..

Вообще переход из LGPL 2.1 в GPL 2 законен и описывается так[1].

Но вот если это действительно так задумано автором (переход на более 
рестриктивную лицензию), то это может иметь некоторые последствия для 
всех, кто линкуется с c-icap-modules или т.п., т.е. к ним тоже должны быть 
применены ограничения GPL 2. Так что, может быть, стоит это прояснить, а 
то это может повлиять на другие пакеты (какая у них должна быть лицензия).

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html

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 -- 
Best regards,
Ivan

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