Hi,
I've submitted a review request (#461484) and have a couple of licensing
issues there (quoting from BZ):
- from the licensing point of view, we have a small mess
a) lots of files have headers defining them as GPLv2+ (good)
b) headers of some other files specifu Public Domain as license (good
again)
c) however there are several files ( for instance
clients/threadtest.c and
many files under /lib ) which have no license specified. What reason
can we invoke in order to assume that they are like all the others,
Public Domain or GPLv2+ ?
In addition to that, the sourcefarge page of the project
(
http://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/) claims that the project is
licensed as GPL and LGPL, but LGPL is only mentioned in the source
through the presence of the standard LGPL license file; I have not
been able to locate any other trace of it. Public Domain + GPLv2+ =
no >
problem, but the presence of files with no specific license make me
ask for help. Anyone more experienced in licensing willing to shed
some light ?
1) do I have to ask upstream to specify license in each
file?
2) what license should this package be or do I have to ask upstream to
clarify it?
Thanks for any help,
Milos Jakubicek