Bug 434690 - invalid-license LGPLv2+ with exceptions
Summary: invalid-license LGPLv2+ with exceptions
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpmlint
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ville Skyttä
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-24 14:08 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2008-03-03 21:50 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.82-3
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Last Closed: 2008-03-03 21:50:51 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2008-02-24 14:08:55 UTC 
rpmlint issues the following warning:

  W: invalid-license LGPLv2+ with exceptions

whereas 'LGPLv2 with exceptions' (without the '+') is a valid license.

I think this is a valid license and there should not be a warning.

Example program which has this license is OCaml-Postgresql:

  http://www.ocaml.info/home/ocaml_sources.html#toc13
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2008-03-01 10:39:01 UTC 
I tend to agree, but rpmlint simply includes the list of short license
identifiers from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing, "LGPLv2+ with
exceptions" is not listed there.  Other similar missing ones include "LGPLv3
with exceptions" and "LGPLv3+ with exceptions".

spot, should those be added to the Wiki page?
Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-03-01 16:44:28 UTC 
Yes, they should (although, I'm not really aware of any LGPLv3* with exceptions
in the wild, they will probably exist sooner or later).
Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-03-01 16:53:28 UTC 
The Licensing list now has entries for LGPLv[23]* with exceptions.
Comment 4 Ville Skyttä 2008-03-03 21:50:51 UTC 
Ok, rpmlint's config synced in 0.82-3.
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