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Tray application and Dolphin/Plasma integration for Syncthing
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issues in LICENSES-windows-distribution.md #127

Closed sten0 closed 2 years ago

sten0 commented 2 years ago

Hi Martchus,

What version of GCC are you using the for Windows build? GCC 4.2.1 was the last GPL2 version. The GDFL license is exclusively used for documentation. If there are other issues, I missed them in my quick scan.

Cheers, Nicholas

Martchus commented 2 years ago

I'm using the latest version of GCC available at the time. So I suppose I'll have to regenerate LICENSES-windows-distribution.md (which is actually generated from licensing meta-data and files found in the corresponding Arch Linux packages). Maybe the license of mingw-w64-gcc was wrongly set there at the time of generating the licensing file.

The GDFL license is exclusively used for documentation.

That might be the case but I suppose filtering licenses for parts of dependencies I don't use isn't worth the effort. The licensing document will be very lengthy anyways.

sten0 commented 2 years ago

Martchus @.***> writes:

I'm using the latest version of GCC available at the time. So I suppose I'll have to regenerate LICENSES-windows-distribution.md (which is actually generated from licensing meta-data and files found in the corresponding Arch Linux packages). Maybe the license of mingw-w64-gcc was wrongly set there at the time of generating the licensing file.

Oh! Yes, it sounds like this could be a bug in the Arch package, or more likely mingw-w64-gcc, because GCC has been GPL-3+ since 2008, and surely the GCC package Maintainer for Arch has reviewed the license since 2007... P.S. Debian is by far the strictest when it comes to painstakingly documenting licenses. Often painfully so ;-)

The GDFL license is exclusively used for documentation.

That might be the case but I suppose filtering licenses for parts of dependencies I don't use isn't worth the effort. The licensing document will be very lengthy anyways.

I totally agree. Maybe it would be possible (and easy) to change "GCC" to "GCC (GPL for code, GFDL for docs, see licence for version)"?

Martchus commented 2 years ago

I updated the file. It now states GPL3 for GCC and since I had to make it a special case anyways I also removed the documentation license (as I don't redistribute its documentation).

sten0 commented 2 years ago

Belated thank you!