[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#510992: Fwd: gEDA-dev: Licensing question regarding libgeda

[Richard Hartmann]

For completeness


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From: Peter TB Brett <redacted>
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:11
Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: Licensing question regarding libgeda
To: gEDA developer mailing list <geda-dev at moria.seul.org>


On Tuesday 13 January 2009 11:03:27 Richard Hartmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to track down the exact licensing of libgeda. Asking the
> people who wrote it is usually a good way to be sure, so here goes :)
>
> Is libgeda under GPL v2 or LGPL v2? The copyright file in Debian claims
> LGPL while the geda website claims GPL.
>
>
> As a definite & authorative answer to this question would enable me to
> close 8 out of 49 release-critical bugs in Debian, a swift response
> would be _very_ appreciated.

GPL v2. The Debian packaging is wrong.

(Hence the name GPL Electronic Design Automation = gEDA)

Regards,

                                  Peter

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Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd



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