Ticket #1072 (closed Bug: fixed)

Opened 21 months ago

Last modified 21 months ago

automake is mistakenly including a GPL3 `COPYING' file

Reported by: charles Owned by: charles
Priority: Normal Milestone: 1.30
Component: Transmission Version: 1.22
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

For historical reasons Transmission has kept its license description in Transmission/LICENSE, which is differs from the common Unix practice of using a file named `COPYING'. Automake is providing a default COPYING file for us, and that default specifies GPL3. Our MIT/GPL2 license is already convoluted enough; we don't need to add GPL3 into the mix.

Renaming LICENSE' as COPYING' should be enough to tell automake to not meddle anymore.

Reported by 'Elaine' in the forums; thanks

Change History

Changed 21 months ago by charles

  • owner set to charles
  • status changed from new to assigned

Changed 21 months ago by charles

  • status changed from assigned to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

fixed in r6286

Changed 21 months ago by charles

  • summary changed from autoconf is mistakenly including a GPL3 `COPYING' file to automake is mistakenly including a GPL3 `COPYING' file
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