Follow-up Comment #36, task #16584 (group administration):
> > Let us see where that passage mentions the LGPL. > > > The LGPL is definitely not "copyright notice". > > The LGPL isn't a notice stating that "this License" (that is, the GPL) > applies to the code. > > The LGPL has nothing to do with "any non-permissive" terms because > it's a > set of permissions. > > The LGPL isn't a notice of absense of any warranty, those notices come in > the text of the GPL. > > "This License" in the context of the GPL means the GPL. > > > Do I miss anything? > > There is a block of text at the tail of GPL license to show users how to apply > LGPL: > > The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into > proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may > consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the > library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public > License instead of this License. But first, please read > <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html>. You are right, the GPL includes that passage; however, it speaks about the LGPL as about a completely different license, and it's written after the end of terms and conditions. I think you can't find any provisions requiring that a copy of the LGPL be included in a source tarball because it's a set of additional permissions, and GPLv3 Section 7 explicitly says, "[w]hen you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove any additional permissions from that copy." What do you think? > You sent me the link mentioned these following 2 types of copyrightable > files: > > a) For copyright purpose, any file more than ten lines long is nontrivial, so > it should have copyright and license notices. > > b) If some of your files cannot carry such notices (e.g. binary files), then > you can add a README file in the same directory containing the copyright and > license notices. Excellent. Have you added copyright and license notices to every such file in your tarball? _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?16584> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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