On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2015-08-27 14:40 GMT+02:00 Javier Serrano <[email protected]>: >> Well done guys. The site looks amazing! I think this is also an >> appropriate moment to thank the fine folks who maintained the >> Confluence site all these years, especially Miguel. >> >> Regarding content, I just have a minor comment on the "About" part. I >> think we should replace "The suite runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and >> is licensed under GNU GPL v2." by "The suite runs on Windows, Linux >> and OS X and is licensed under GNU GPL." As we have discussed in the >> past, KiCad's code base is actually a mix of GPL2+ and GPL3+, >> effectively behaving as a whole like GPL3+. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Javier > > Yeah, that is probably better, but it is still a bit ambiguous or not > completely clear. I think we should consider it a task to get hold and > make a file in the source describing the exact situation and > preferable which folders and files are under which license. The about > dialog in KiCad states GPLv2+. But we should probably make another new > thread about this issue, instead of hijacking this announcement. > (Which I have now done with this mail) > > Nick
This looks like a new thread to me now :) I think we could take it in two phases. In a first phase, replacing "GPL v2" or "GPLv2+" and similar wording by "GPL" in places like the web site and the About dialog goes in the direction of at least not saying anything which is false. In a second phase, I do agree with you, and we should explore ways in which this can be communicated in a standard way. There are two ways I know of at the moment, the machine-readable Debian copyright file [1] and SPDX [2]. FWIW, my current understanding is that all of KiCad is GPL2+ except for the P&S router, which is GPL3+. Cheers, Javier [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ [2] https://spdx.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
