Bug 359918

Summary:	Licensing issues
Product:	[Applications] cantor	Reporter:	Maximiliano Curia <maxy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Filipe Saraiva <filipe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	agostinelli, alexanderrieder, aspotashev
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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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