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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: base64: Restore original license header (license compliance issue)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:48:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1ku8gr0.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inumodd7.fsf@elephly.net>

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> When incorporating a copyleft licensed program with a lax licensed program,
>> it is correct to preserve the original license notice.  See also:
>>   https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
>>
>> base64.scm did not do this.  This is important, because it is part of
>> the license that the copyright header be preserved, so we must do this
>> to comply correctly.
>>
>> (This is a common confusion: adding a stronger copyleft does not
>> "relicense" the original work.)
>
> Thank you for this patch.  I’m not familiar with these licensing details
> but what you write looks plausible to me.
>
> ~~ Ricardo

Ok cool, pushed!

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-27 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26 20:18 base64: Restore original license header (license compliance issue) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-08-27  7:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-08-27 13:48   ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]

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