The GPL is a license for copyrighted works, so we expect it to be combined with a copyright statement. Normally, there is also a notice like the one recommended at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html#SEC4, but I don’t see any reason to assume that the files with just a copyright statement are licensed differently from the software as a whole in this case.
(Note that I’m answering only as an experienced packager, and I have no special standing to answer legal questions in Fedora.)
- Ben Beasley (FAS: music)
On 7/21/25 9:26 AM, Pavol Sloboda via
legal wrote:
Hello,
I have recently been looking into the CMake files of the galera package and I have found this line in multiple of the files:# Copyright (C) 2020 Codership Oy <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
and after searching the fedora packaging guidelines for whether specifying a copyright while the whole package is licensed under GPL-2.0-only is an issue I have found nothing on the matter.So my questions are: Is this an issue? And are cases like this documented somewhere in the packaging guidelines?
Best regards.Pavol Sloboda.
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