From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Netpbm
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:25:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bocig7d5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301202340.23178.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:40:23 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
[...]
>> It seems to be more complex than this. Some files in lib/ have this:
>>
>> ** Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
>> its ** documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
>> provided ** that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
>> that both that ** copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
>> supporting ** documentation. This software is provided "as is" without
>> express or ** implied warranty.
>>
>> Others in analyzer/ have GPLv2+, others have this:
>>
>> All work has been contributed to the public domain by its authors.
>
> Should it not be possible to relicense all of these under gpl2, so that the
> license field is still correct? Anyway, we cannot track the licenses of all
> files with only one field...
Actually, the ‘license’ field should reflect the license of the
“combined work”. So, since there’s a least one GPLv2+ file, the
combined work may well be under GPLv2+, or perhaps under GPLv2-only if
there’s such a file around.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-19 17:03 Netpbm Andreas Enge
2013-01-19 22:06 ` Netpbm Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-19 22:24 ` Netpbm Andreas Enge
2013-01-20 14:02 ` Netpbm Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-20 15:31 ` Netpbm Andreas Enge
2013-01-20 22:08 ` Netpbm Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-20 22:40 ` Netpbm Andreas Enge
2013-01-20 23:17 ` Netpbm Andreas Enge
2013-01-21 10:27 ` Netpbm Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-21 21:00 ` Netpbm Andreas Enge
2013-01-21 22:44 ` Netpbm Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-21 10:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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