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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 49520@debbugs.gnu.org, "Paul A. Patience" <paul@apatience.com>
Subject: [bug#49520] [PATCH] Minor fixes to interception-tools and update dual-function-keys.
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:05:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735s05axw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <668d75baa21e97dd2c8ae6d6fcac6e1bf7d651f8.camel@telenet.be> (Maxime Devos's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2021 20:06:04 +0200")

Hi Maxime,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 26-07-2021 om 19:36 [+0200]:

[...]

>> > -    ;; Dual-licensed under GPLv3+ or "something else" on request, per
>> > +    ;; Dual-licensed under GPLv3 or "something else" on request, per
>> >      ;; 'README.md'.
>> > -    (license license:gpl3+)))
>> > +    (license license:gpl3)))
>> 
>> AFAICS, nothing in the source says “version 3 only”, so ‘gpl3+’ is correct.
>
> Nothing in the source mentions any version number (aside the license text 
> itself), so gpl1+ is correct according to section ‘14. Revised Versions of this License’:
>
>   [...].  If the Program does not specify a version number of the
> GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published
> by the Free Software Foundation.

I agree, though the way we encode it in Guix is ‘gpl3+’.

> -- Actually, a version number is specified somewhere.  In the README
> (https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools#license) there is a ‘GPLv3 Free Software’
> icon. So GPLv1 and GPLv2 are out.  I'm not sure if GPLv4, GPLv5 ... are allowed
> in this case.

My interpretation is that it’s “version 3 or later”.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-27 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-11  4:31 [bug#49520] [PATCH] Minor fixes to interception-tools and update dual-function-keys Paul A. Patience
2021-07-26 17:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-26 18:06   ` Maxime Devos
2021-07-27 10:05     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-07-26 23:58   ` Paul A. Patience

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