libgpg-error and gpgme: GPLed or LGPLed?

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:59, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> libgpg-error and gpgme appear to be ambiguously licensed.  The COPYING
> file in the source tree is the GPL, but the comments at the top of,
> e.g., src/mkerrorcodes.c suggest that libgpg-error is meant to be
> distributed under terms of the LGPL.

Libgpg-error is under trhe LGPLv2.1+ but some internal build tools are
under the GPL.  From the README:

  libgpg-error is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
  License, or (at your option) any later version.  See the file
  COPYING.LIB for copyright and warranty information.
  
  However, some files (for example src/mkerrnos.awk) used in the build
  process of the library are covered by a different license.  Please see
  the header of these files and the file COPYING for copyright and
  warranty information on these files.  A special exception in the
  copyright license of these files makes sure that the output in the
  build process, which is used in libgpg-error, is not affected by the
  GPL.

I have made sure that COPYING.LIB and COPYING are both distributed.  


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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