[ghemical-devel] licensing (was: Ghemical-2.95 is now released)

Michael Banck mbanck at debian.org
Sat Dec 29 18:22:51 EST 2007


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:25:09PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> It turns out I had the copyright as "GPLv2 only" and he had it as "GPLv2 and
> later".  After looking at the license boilerplate of the source files,
> either interpretation seems possible, but maybe "GPLv2 only" is more
> likely:
> 
> // This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> // under the terms of the license (GNU GPL) which comes with this package.
> 
> Now that I think of it (and after checking that the same applies to
> libghemical and ghemical), maybe I asked already in the past (sorry to
> repeat the question then); maybe you could make that more clear by
> including the full advised boilerplate at the top of the .cpp and .h
> files:
[...]

Well, it would be nice to have a statement on this.  In the meanwhile, I
won't wait any longer and upload liboglappth as GPLv2only to Debian now.


Michael



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