Incorrect license listed on project page

Bug #1156961 reported by Michel Lind
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Granite
Fix Released
Medium
David Gomes

Bug Description

The Granite code ships with a COPYING file, and file headers, indicating that it's licensed under a variety of GPLv2 or later (e.g. Main.vala) and GPLv3 or later (AboutDialog.vala, System.vala, etc.) -- so effectively the collection is under GPLv3 or later.

However, on the project page it's listed as under LGPLv3.

Which is accurate? If Granite is intended only for Elementary app development, I suppose that means all Elementary apps must be GPLv3 (optionally, or later), and that's a reasonable limitation. If Granite is intended to be used by third parties, LGPLv3+ might be a more flexible licensing.

Either way, one or the two probably needs to be brought in line with the other.

Changed in granite:
assignee: nobody → Miguel Angel del Olmo (silinio45)
Changed in granite:
assignee: Miguel Angel del Olmo (silinio45) → nobody
Revision history for this message
David Gomes (davidgomes) wrote :

Supposedly, the project is licensed on LGPL, because we want to let proprietary applications to use it. However, some files have the wrong headers, I think I can look into that.

David Gomes (davidgomes)
Changed in granite:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → David Gomes (davidgomes)
David Gomes (davidgomes)
Changed in granite:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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