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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:25:58 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:

[...]

>> It seems to be more complex than this.  Some files in lib/ have this:
>>=20
>>   ** 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.
>>=20
>> Others in analyzer/ have GPLv2+, others have this:
>>=20
>>   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 t=
he=20
> license field is still correct? Anyway, we cannot track the licenses of a=
ll=20
> files with only one field...

Actually, the =E2=80=98license=E2=80=99 field should reflect the license of=
 the
=E2=80=9Ccombined work=E2=80=9D.  So, since there=E2=80=99s a least one GPL=
v2+ file, the
combined work may well be under GPLv2+, or perhaps under GPLv2-only if
there=E2=80=99s such a file around.

Ludo=E2=80=99.