| Summary: | Licensing issue between KGet (GPL-2.0) and the mmsthreads transfer-plugin (GPL-3.0) | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kget | Reporter: | Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KGet authors <kget> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | a.samirh78, cordlandwehr, justin.zobel |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 2.12.60 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! Dear Bug Submitter, This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 322396 *** |
The spec file for kget 4.10.90 states that the package is GPL-2.0+ licensed. The source files in the /transfer-plugins/mmsthreads/ subdirectory are GPL-3.0+ licensed. For example, dlgmms.cpp: /* This file is part of the KDE project Copyright (C) 2011 Ernesto Rodriguez Ortiz <eortiz@uci.cu> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ Is it intended to package GPL-3.0+ plugins as part of an ostensibly GPL-2.0+ program - meaning that there is a danger that the entire program should be licensed under GPL-3.0+ rather than GPL-2.0+. Reproducible: Always