Hi Julie,
If you are using v 1.1 or lower, then "style" means that the license is similar
to one of our GPL v2 reference licenses. GPL v2 without "style" means that it
is a match to a reference license.
In v 1.2 we are using a completely different type of license scanner (called
nomos). Nomos is a heuristic scanner. Instead of doing fuzzy matches on
reference licenses (v 1.1 and before) it uses rules that look for license
signatures. So "style" simply means that a rule found a signature that looks
like a license but doesn't have a matching signature for that license itself.
For example, the following would be listed as "MIT-style" because it's an MIT
license but never says it is an MIT license:
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Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd
and Clark Cooper
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
-------------------------
Does that help?
Bob Gobeille
b...@fossology.org
On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:30 AM, Julie Blot wrote:
> I'm using fossology for the analyse of one of my program. However, the
> analyse shows that some parts of the program is under GPL v2 style and
> one othe part on GPL v2.
>
> Is someone could explain to me what is the difference ?
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