Hi, Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> writes:
> 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." Then it’s GPLv2+, unless the headers specify a version number. Thanks, Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
