On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 06:47:47AM +0100, Mattia Verga wrote:
But what about if the package carries a
Copyright.txt file which says "license: GPL-3"? Does it wins over source
headers?
It really depends on the circumstances, but if all the source file
notices say "GPLv3 or later" I would probably assume that the entire
program is GPLv3-or-later even if this is not explicit in the global
copyright file.
I'm asking because I'm in this situation while packaging
"Indistarter" in
Fedora. I'm now waiting for a clarification about the software author, but I
would like to know what to say him for fixing this situation. Does he have
to change source headers if he want to ship as GPLv3 only? There's no such
case on
gnu.org as it seems that the only option complied is GPLv3+.
I took a look myself (if this is the 'indistarter' project hosted on
SourceForge) and I would conclude it's GPLv3-or-later since the source
files bearing the project maintainer's copyright and license notices
all use "or later" (bare 'GPLv3' only appears in files with license
metadata), and there's nothing I could see that suggested there was
'GPLv3 only' code.
Richard