[Thunar-dev] volman configure.in copyright/license

[Auke Kok]

Gauvain Pocentek wrote:
> Hi Benny,
> 
> The configure.in file of thunar-volman says "All rights reserved." which 
> doesn't allow to redistribute it, and the
> thunar-volman/xfce-{heading,titled-dialog}.[ch] files are licensed under 
> LGPL, but the full text of the LGPL isn't provided in the tarball. The 
> ubuntu package I've made has been rejected by our ftp-master because of 
> this.
> 
> Would you agree to provide the LGPL full text, and maybe change the 
> configure.in license?

the "All Rights Reserved" is not a problem for anyone who consumes the code as a user 
under the LGPL license. It merely acts as a legal warning that tells the user that he 
has to read and accept the conditions mentioned elsewhere first, and that the normal 
copyright rules apply to the work too. (which they always do unless you public domain 
it, and then they still apply in some ways, because public domain is a US thing and 
other countries have different copyright rules, but I'm digressing).

several open source projects have this type of header.

Consider it like apache's authorization scheme:

Order Deny, Allow
Deny ALL
Allow LGPL-use

Cheers,

Auke