Re: GPL and LGPL not acceptable for Fedora!

[Jima <jima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> As an alternative, we could have some boilerplate that specifically
> explains the situation  to the upstream author when we encounter a bare
> "GPL" in the source code:

 I emailed an upstream with a similar message yesterday when I encountered 
a COPYING file but no copyright/licensing-related comments in the source. 
They responded immediately agreeing that they should add copyright 
information, and even going so far as to ask my opinion on whether they 
should use a specific version of the GPL or not.  (Wow, what a cooperative 
upstream.)  FWIW, this was Coraid, upstream for aoetools and vblade.

 I'm definitely a proponent of contacting upstream for clarification. 
Hopefully all of them will be so friendly, especially since clearing this 
up now could save them problems down the road.

     Jima

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