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. >
