Stephen Warren wrote:
> A couple of license-related questions
> 
> 1) The file libconcord/win/setupapi.h states:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1995-1997 Microsoft Corporation
> 
> This certainly isn't GPL, but it's possible MS allows redistribution.
> 
> The thing is, I'd expect any Windows C compiler (or perhaps the platform
> SDK) to include this header, so I'm not sure why libconcord needs to
> ship it at all?

I'd expect that too, but Kevin did all of the Windows stuff based on some
version of Visual C++ from like... 1942. That's why we have all kinds of
stuff. If someone with greater knowledge of the platform than I wants to
speak on how much this is needed I'm definitely happy to entertain nuking them.

> 2) I see GPL 3 is now in LICENSE, which is great, but quite a few files'
> comments still say "GPL version 2 or later" instead of "GPL version 3 or
> later", which I think you'd mentioned was the correct version.

Yeah, just hadn't gotten around to that...

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