Bug 359918 - Licensing issues
Summary: Licensing issues
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: cantor
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Filipe Saraiva
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Reported: 2016-02-29 08:43 UTC by Maximiliano Curia
Modified: 2017-04-28 19:19 UTC (History)
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Description Maximiliano Curia 2016-02-29 08:43:57 UTC 
The files src/backends/qalculate/settingswidget.cpp and src/backends/qalculate/settingswidget.h are licensed under GPL-3+ while most of the code is licensed GPL-2+, this make the complete backend effectively GPL-3 (for ~10 lines of code), at the same time the GPL-3+ license requires the distribution of the full license together with the source code and the included COPYING file is a GPL-2 license.

To fix this issue we could either re-license the mentioned files (either with the permission of Matteo Agostinelli or rewriting them), to match the license of the rest of the code, or we could add the missing COPYING.gpl3 file.

Note: This is considered a serious bug in Debian (as can be seen in http://bugs.debian.org/792078) as it violates the Debian Policy.

Happy hacking,

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Filipe Saraiva 2017-04-28 19:19:03 UTC 
This bug was fixed some time ago, see the commit in [1].

Cheers!

[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/R55:32ef29b0c959137166deb6e9396065e26c087513