[aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

Justin Kromlinger hashworks at archlinux.org
Tue May 18 07:16:14 UTC 2021


On Mon, 17 May 2021 23:15:44 +0300
Bjoern Bidar via aur-general <aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Does the license of the package still match? The statement 
> conflicts with the GPL (or any FOSS license for that matter).

IANAL but GPL generally seems to allow extension of the license (in reasonable matter). I would
say as long as we package the upstream LICENSE file (which we now do) we're in the green, valid GPL
or not.

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