License questions on the dbus package version 1.1.20

Havoc Pennington hp at pobox.com
Sun Jun 22 07:11:44 PDT 2008


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:15 PM, David Mandala
<david.mandala at canonical.com> wrote:
> cleanup-man-pages.sh
> test/spawn-test.c
> test/test-segfault.c
> test/test-utils.c
> test/test-shell-service.c
> test/test-utils.h
> test/test-sleep-forever.c
> test/test-service.c
> test/test-exit.c
> test/name-test/run-test.sh
> test/name-test/test-ids.c
> test/name-test/test-names.c
> test/name-test/test-threads-init.c
> test/name-test/test-pending-call-dispatch.c
> test/test-names.c
> test/shell-test.c
> tools/run-with-tmp-session-bus.sh

These are all under the normal dbus licenses, though none of these
would be in a binary distribution, so they're only relevant when
distributing the source.

> Additionally the COPYING file says that the files are GPLv2 where as the
> all of the actual code files (that have copyright info) say GPLv2 or
> later.  I'd just like to verify that the actual code files override the
> COPYING file and the package is actually licensed as GPLv2 or later.

They are v2 or later yes.

Havoc


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