On 03/02/2010 02:02 AM, Parag Nemade wrote:
Hi,
hunspell-ta and hunspell-or are the dictionary packages and derived
from its aspell dictionaries. I see licenses for them are as
Lang aspell hunspell
or GPLv2+ LGPLv2 (Upstream uses aspell wordlist and
released as hunspell-or)
ta GPL+ GPLv2+ (Upstream uses aspell wordlist, added
some more and released as hunspell-ta)
Can I get legal opinion on license tags? Are upstream of these packages
using correct licenses?
Well, the hunspell-ta package is fine, you can take GPL+ code and
combine it with GPLv2+ code to get a GPLv2+ end result, but the
hunspell-or package is not okay, because you can't end up with LGPLv2
when you start with GPLv2+, unless they are the same copyright holder on
both works.
~spot