Benjamin Beasley kirjoitti 8.9.2021 klo 22.07:
The license for the mpir package has been simplified from “LGPLv3+ and LGPLv2+
and (LGPLv3+ or GPLv2+) and BSD” back to the effective license of “LGPLv3+”.
See also
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:FAQ#What_is_.22effective_license.22_and_do_I_need_to_know_that_for_the_License:_tag.3F.
While not strictly required when there is a single effective license, a
breakdown of the exact licenses for various source files is still included.
I have followed several discussions about effective licensing already,
but I still do not understand it. I apologize for asking a question that
has most probably been asked and answered many times already, but there
really is something I do not understand here.
I do understand that the various GNU license here can be combined into
just LGPLv3+. But what happened to the following clause from the BSD
license?
> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Was that condition somehow erased because the BSD source was compiled
together with other source? I have hard time believing it did.
Or does the License tag encode only some subset of the binary's
licensing conditions? If so, it cannot be used to determine what you are
allowed and not allowed to do with the binary. What is the intended use
of the License tag then?
I would like to have that explained in the FAQ. Even better, the
licensing guidelines [1] should have explanation of this, or a link to
the wiki pages that have licensing related rules and guidance.
Otto
[1]:https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/
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