[horde] openSUSE legal question on Horde_Role -- Bugzilla [Bug 696337] New: Confirm version of LGPL in php5-pear-Horde_Role%1.0.0

[Ralf Lang]

Hi folks, the openSUSE Legal team asked me to confirm the license status of 
Horde_Role because one file says LGPL (no version, implying LGPL v3) and the 
other file has a GPL header. PEAR says LGPL. I packaged that into rpm as as 
LGPL.

I expect them to have a lot more questions along that line, especially 
regarding license versions.

I always understood that you mean the license to be like the pear metadata 
states. If a license file is given, that version as packaged is meant to be.

If no license file is given, a license version in the metadata is the intended 
version

If no license version is given but a link, the latest/linked version of that 
license applies.

Can I have a confirmation from you on that package and on horde licensing in 
general? That would facilitate matters a lot. 

I committed new versions of the LGPLv2 license files to git recently, because 
their legal team would not like the outdated FSF address. I have no access to 
the horde3 cvs trees of the released apps though.


https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696337

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696337#c0


           Summary: Confirm version of LGPL in php5-pear-Horde_Role%1.0.0
    Classification: SUSE Tools
           Product: SUSE Linux Legal Issues
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: License Issues
        AssignedTo: lang at b1-systems.de
        ReportedBy: cfarrell at novell.com
         QAContact: jw at novell.com
             Group: Legal Security Team
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


The spec file simply states License: LGPL. The package has e.g. the following
notice in Horde.php and in Role.php:
/**
 * PEAR_Installer_Role_Horde
 *
 * Copyright 2010-2011 The Horde Project (http://www.horde.org/)
 *
 * See the enclosed file COPYING for license information (LGPL). If you
 * did not receive this file, see http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lgpl.html.
 *
 * @author    Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
 * @category  Horde
 * @copyright 2010-2011 The Horde Project (http://www.horde.org/)
 * @license   http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL
 * @package   Role
 */

/**
 * @author    Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
 * @category  Horde
 * @copyright 2010-2011 The Horde Project (http://www.horde.org/)
 * @license   http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL
 * @package   Role
 */

It is not clear to me what version is being referred to. The link points to a
FSF webpage which would imply LGPL-3.0. The metadata states also that it could
be GPL (@license http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL).

Please advise.

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