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FS#21642 - [vlc] has incorrect license field

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by dyscoria (dyscoria) - Monday, 08 November 2010, 20:06 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 14 November 2010, 00:30 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The VLC package distributed by Arch Linux has an incorrect license field.

It should be GPL2 instead of GPL.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
vlc-1.1.4.1-2
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 00:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by dyscoria (dyscoria) - Monday, 08 November 2010, 20:08 GMT
Noticed this after all the fuss over vlc and Apple. Makes me wonder how many Arch packages have incorrect licenses fields.
Comment by xduugu (xduugu) - Monday, 08 November 2010, 21:41 GMT
GPL2 in the license field means "GPL2 only"[1], but vlc is licensed "under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."[2]

So, GPL ("GPLv2 or any later version"[1]) is fine.


[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Licenses
[2] http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=src/libvlc.c;h=7a6cce349397a8ae8d51446a0a5eca3a5d09e9aa;hb=HEAD
Comment by dyscoria (dyscoria) - Monday, 08 November 2010, 22:41 GMT
Oops! will have to change some of my AUR packages then :rolleyes:

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