On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:18:12 +0200, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> writes: > > > xapian: gplv2 -> gpl (according to homepage), added myself as maintainer > > [...] > > > description = "Bindings for the Xapian library"; > > homepage = xapian.meta.homepage; > > - license = "GPLv2"; > > + license = "GPL"; > > “GPL” alone is quite vague. It’s “version X or later”, or just > “version X”. This can be found by checking the source file headers, > or, if they are lacking, the COPYING file.
The website says "GPL" and links to http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php which lists GPLv2 and GPLv3. The file COPYING contains GPLv2 which states in 9. "If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation." From that I would take, it really is generic GPL and not limited to a specific version. I would check with upstream, if you think its necessary. Thank you very much for your feedback! -- Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: f...@chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC
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