From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Subject: Re: License auditing
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:42:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poppy47o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160803180342.GA11621@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:03:42 -0400")
Howdy!
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> I've heard that if the only license information is a copy of the full
> license (for example, in LICENSE or COPYING) and the files have no
> license headers, then the "or later" part is implied, but I'm not sure.
In reality, the GNU licenses permit the recipient to choose any version
of the license. For instance, Section 14 of GPLv3 reads:
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.
However, in Guix we encode such cases as ‘gpl3+’ (or similar), rather
than ‘gpl1+’.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-03 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-03 16:28 License auditing David Craven
2016-08-03 17:55 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-08-03 18:00 ` Jelle Licht
2016-08-03 18:05 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-03 18:05 ` David Craven
2016-08-03 18:15 ` David Craven
2016-08-03 18:03 ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-03 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-08-03 21:11 ` Alex Griffin
2016-08-03 22:59 ` David Craven
2016-08-04 14:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-04 14:40 ` Alex Griffin
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2016-08-04 17:41 Philippe Ombredanne
2016-08-04 18:34 Philippe Ombredanne
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