Not to complain to harsly - but is it not the job of the module owner to decide on the licence for his/her own work???
Andy (snow author) On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:52:56PM -0400, Enlightenment CVS wrote: > Enlightenment CVS committal > > Author : devilhorns > Project : e_modules > Module : snow > > Dir : e_modules/snow > > > Modified Files: > COPYING > Added Files: > COPYING-PLAIN > > > Log Message: > Update license for snow module to bsd. > > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/e/e_modules/snow/COPYING,v > retrieving revision 1.1 > retrieving revision 1.2 > diff -u -3 -r1.1 -r1.2 > --- COPYING 12 Dec 2005 05:14:17 -0000 1.1 > +++ COPYING 19 Jun 2006 20:52:56 -0000 1.2 > @@ -1,340 +1,28 @@ > - GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE > - Version 2, June 1991 > +Copyright (C) 2004 The Enlightenment Development Team > > - Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > - 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA > - Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > - of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > - > - Preamble > - > - The licenses for most software are designed to take away your > -freedom to share and change it. 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