Leo Famulari <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. ápr. 26., Cs
20:43):

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:13:09AM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> > 2018-04-26 1:26 GMT+02:00 Jone <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > Hi people!
> > > How do I build https://github.com/nonpop/xkblayout-state ?
> > > I need it for switching keyboard layout with one key (LWin), in Emacs
> > > and in X.
> > >
> > > Hello!
> >
> > I've checked the mentioned software. It seems, that it is non-free. This
> is
> > caused
> > by  partial application of GPL2. What is missing is an explicit license
> > file, and some
> > license notes. As it seems, that the intention of the author was to
> release
> > this software
> > under GPL2, it might be easy to have it fixed. Please point the author to
> > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.
>
> Why do you think the software is not free software distributed under the
> GPL2+?
>
> The author explicitly states in the README that they have released it as
> GPL2+, and most of the files also contain license headers.
>

Sorry if I misunderstood, the intention of the author is clearly to licence
the work as gpl, but some files are missing the gpl clause. Also a copy of
the license is omitted. It is mandated by term 1 of gpl. If this partial
application of gpl makes this a free software, then sorry for the noise. In
case this software is ok for upstream, and is not packaged yet, then I
would be happy to contribute a package.

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