From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:22:12 -0500 Message-ID: <87vbpxenrv.fsf@gmail.com> References: <53EA2DCC.9020304@scorpionrock.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHDs8-0004Cf-U1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:20:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHDrz-0002v6-TL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:20:24 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::234]:47441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHDrz-0002uy-Nc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:20:15 -0400 Received: by mail-ig0-f180.google.com with SMTP id l13so7028852iga.13 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:20:15 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <53EA2DCC.9020304@scorpionrock.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Bishmer J. Sekaran" Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Bishmer J. Sekaran writes: > re: Licensing, my impression was that "gpl2+" only applies if the > authors specifically invoke "any later version" when they distribute the > software, per clause 9 of the GPL 2 [...] > Upstream lists the project as: > "License > GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)" > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcfldd/ > > Am I in error? In some cases the "or later" clause is only mentioned in the source file headers. I see, from a brief glance at the source, that this is the case for dcfldd. -- Eric Bavier