Le 20/05/2010 09:25, Elie Roux a écrit : > To make it clear maybe a paragraph in the readme saying that the whole > package is distributed under GPL would help... Anyway if you really like > legal things, you should put a COPYING file in git containing the GPLv2 > text, it's part of the license... > > So, what exactly is the point of going all-GPL? It simplifies a little > bit, but gives some useless restrictions to some files. > Okay, so what about adding a COPYING or LICENCE file clearly stating the following: - the whole package is published under GPL - more precisely: - <list of context files> are derived from ConTeXt, original copyright <I didn't check>, GPL v2. - <list of new files> may be used, distributed and modified under the terms of CC0.
I don't disagree with the idea of putting some files under a "freeer" (non-copyleft) licence, but I think it'll help people if at first glance, they can identify a single licence for the whole package (and discover only later that some files are more freely usable). Manuel.
