Follow-up Comment #30, task #16584 (group administration):
> > Let us recall the question: it was if including a copy of the LGPL > > is a requirement. How does this passage relates to that? > > This paragraph notices users "and how to view a copy of this License". It > tells users to include a copy or a link to GPL. But it never says that links are allowed, and it discusses the behavior of the program rather than what the distribution contains. > > What license this paragraph refers to? > > This paragraph refers to the GPL license. Since LGPL is an additional text to > the GPL license, the LGPL license doesn't really link to any topic of > including a copy of LGPL. I'm not sure I understand the bottom line. Have you succeeded to confirm with the text of the licenses that including the LGPL in a distribution is a requirement? > Do you mean this notice? > > <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> > Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> > > 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 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. In fact, this isn't a notice. The first line denotes a short description of the program, the second line is a template for the copyright notice; the rest is the license notice. Those are the two kinds of notices we are speaking about. Now, the next question is, what files should include them. What do you think? > _______________________________________________________ > > To reply to this notification, you have two options: > * In the Web UI at <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?16584>. > * By email, ONLY IF you sign your email with a GPG key registered > in your Savannah account AND you include the following line > in the reply: > _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?16584> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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