Hi Ricardo, Ok I got it. That raises three questions for me though. 1.) I remember from what I have read on gnu.org that if one part of the program is GPL-3 or in general GPL that means everything becomes GPL. So as I understand that is the reason the program becomes GPL-2+, correct? Or does the original license of GPL-2 applies for the whole program? 2.) Should I contact Gentoo to correct it? Because I checked a couple of files from kdenlive too and they said GPL-2+. 3.) Why are saying that they are GPL-2 then and not GPL-2+? Is it just a case of not updating the COPYING file or their site? Because the Dolphin File Manager also says GPL-2+ in a lot of files but their site says GPL-2.
Regards, FanisSep 15, 2019, 19:15 by rek...@elephly.net: > > Hi Fanis, > >> The other example is Qbittorrent. >> its GPL-2 again in gentoo: >> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/qbittorrent >> <https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-p2p/qbittorrent> >> Source is saying GPL-2: >> https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/COPYING >> <https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/COPYING> >> but Guix is saying GPL-2+ again. >> > > It is correct that the repository contains a copy of the text of version > 2 of the GPL in COPYING. The source files, however, have a license > header that states that version 2 of the license or any later version > applies. See for example > > > https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/master/src/base/asyncfilestorage.cpp > > -- > Ricardo >
