Reconsile licensing (AKA: GPL license versions are annoying) #11

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opened 2026-05-08 04:09:25 +00:00 by gotmax23 · 1 comment

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So, I realized the licensing is a bit of a mess here since the original find_unblocked_orphans.py script is GPL-2.0-only, but the current licenses of orphansv2 and rmdepcheck are GPL-3.0-or-later. Currently, all the code in https://forge.fedoraproject.org/packaging/orphansv2/src/branch/main/repoclosure_orphans.py was written from scratch by me, but we should reconcile these licenses to make it possible to share/reuse code between the original script, v2, and rmdepcheck.

So, I realized the licensing is a bit of a mess here since the original find_unblocked_orphans.py script is `GPL-2.0-only`, but the current licenses of orphansv2 and rmdepcheck are `GPL-3.0-or-later`. Currently, all the code in https://forge.fedoraproject.org/packaging/orphansv2/src/branch/main/repoclosure_orphans.py was written from scratch by me, but we should reconcile these licenses to make it possible to share/reuse code between the original script, v2, and rmdepcheck.

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gotmax23 changed title from ~~GPL license versions are annoying~~ to Reconsile licensing (AKA: GPL license versions are annoying)

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Change license to GPL-2.0-or-later

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2026-05-10 00:27:20 +00:00

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For now, I am not planning to import or use significant code from either v1 (that does not have the "or later versions" allowance) or rmdepcheck (GPLv3+). I have changed the license in this repo to GPL-2.0-or-later to match fedrq (and rpm/dnf) and the default license for releng scripts.

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