The phrase "multiple, distinct, and independent licenses" appears three times in the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines document. To me it seems pretty clear that this is just some lawyer-speak for "more than one license", but a non-native speaker of English wanted to know if "GPLv2+" and "GPLv3+" are independent and I realized that I've no idea at all what that really means.
Though the context isn't really relevant, the binary package in question has files which are GPLv2+ except for one which is GPLv3+. The GPLv3+ code is not linked together with the GPLv2+ code in any way (it's a plugin). Obviously the proper license tag is "GPLv2+ and GPLv3+" with a comment indicating what's what. When referred to the licensing guidelines, the packager then came back with questions about whether those two licenses are independent which I couldn't really answer. - J< _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
