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Ensure we detect this license correctly #3854

Open pombredanne opened 1 month ago

pombredanne commented 1 month ago

See : https://github.com/JanKallman/EPPlus/blob/55c5ba6169eaa6ae7867fefb36a84cc0b28be85a/SampleApp/Sample16.cs#L10

 * EPPlus is an Open Source project provided under the 
 * GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the 
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 * 
 * The GNU General Public License can be viewed at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
 * If you unfamiliar with this license or have questions about it, here is an http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
 * 
 * The code for this project may be used and redistributed by any means PROVIDING it is 
 * not sold for profit without the author's written consent, and providing that this notice 
 * and the author's name and all copyright notices remain intact.
 * 
 * All code and executables are provided "as is" with no warranty either express or implied. 
 * The author accepts no liability for any damage or loss of business that this product may cause.

and https://github.com/JanKallman/EPPlus/blob/55c5ba6169eaa6ae7867fefb36a84cc0b28be85a/EPPlus/IRangeID.cs#L10

 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
 * See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * The GNU Lesser General Public License can be viewed at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php
 * If you unfamiliar with this license or have questions about it, here is an http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
 *
 * All code and executables are provided "as is" with no warranty either express or implied. 
 * The author accepts no liability for any damage or loss of business that this product may cause.
armijnhemel commented 4 weeks ago

I would split this issue into two, as they are clearly two different licenses. The first one is GPL with an extra restriction (that probably makes it not compatible with the GPL) and the second is a regular LGPL 2.1.