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Updating contact addresses in license files, added LGPL v2.0 file
jrohel Sep 11, 2025
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CONTRIBUTING.md: New source files should be LGPLv2.1+
jrohel Sep 11, 2025
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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions CONTRIBUTING.md
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Expand Up @@ -118,20 +118,21 @@ To setup a development environment, complete the following steps:

## License Header

New source files should be licensed under the **GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later**.
Specify the license using `SPDX-License-Identifier`.

New C++ and C source files should start with the following header:
```
// Copyright Contributors to the DNF5 project
// SPDX-License-Identifier: THE-LICENSE-IDENTIFIER
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
```

The same rule applies to other source files, with the header adjusted according to the rules of the specific language. For example, Perl, Python, and Ruby source files should start with the header:
```
# Copyright Contributors to the DNF5 project
# SPDX-License-Identifier: THE-LICENSE-IDENTIFIER
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
```

Replace `THE-LICENSE-IDENTIFIER` with either `GPL-2.0-or-later` or `LGPL-2.1-or-later`, according to COPYING.md.

## Pull request checklist

When you submit your pull request or push new commits to it, our automated
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9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions gpl-2.0.txt
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Version 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
<https://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

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GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

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Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

<signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
<signature of Moe Ghoul>, 1 April 1989
Moe Ghoul, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
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