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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mtd-utils.
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:53:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fau4u0l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760qfq0m0.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:13:27 +0200")

Ludovic Courtès (2016-09-01 15:13 +0300) wrote:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:59:11 +0200
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>>
>>> Are there GPLv2 license headers that lack the “or any later version”
>>> wording, or anything that explicitly says “version 2 only”?  If not,
>>> it’s v2-or-later.
>
> [...]
>
>> ./mkfs.ubifs/crc16.h: ' * Implements the standard CRC-16: * Width 16 *
>> Poly 0x8005 ( x^16 + x^15 + x^2 + 1 ) * Init 0 * * Copyright ( c )
>> 2005 Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> * * This code was taken from
>> the linux kernel. The license is GPL Version 2.  '
>
> OK, GPLv2-only!

Wait, why?  There are files that have a full license headers with "or
any later version", for example "docfdisk.c", "flash_erase.c" and
others.  That's why I thought both gpl2 and gpl2+ should be listed.

-- 
Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-02  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-29 23:24 [PATCH] gnu: Add mtd-utils Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-30  8:08 ` Alex Kost
2016-08-30  8:39   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-31  7:24     ` Alex Kost
2016-08-31 20:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-31 21:39       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-09-01 12:13         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02  7:53           ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-09-02  8:07             ` Alex Vong
2016-09-02 12:49             ` Ludovic Courtès

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