----- Original Message ----- > From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> > Cc: Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:03 PM > Subject: Re: [PD] Keyboard shortcuts for "nudge", "done editing" > > Le 2011-10-06 à 15:46:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : > >> Then there are cases like pdogg, where LICENSE.txt is GPL v2 but in > README.txt the author writes that the license is LGPL. > > Ok, this would be plain wrong, if it were the case. Then the author would > have > to be contacted, in order to make things clear. > > However : > > head -1 externals/pdogg/LICENSE.txt > > gives : > > GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Ok, I got confused with "Library" vs. "Lesser" LGPL v2 = GNU Library GPL LGPL v2.1 = GNU Lesser GPL LGPL v3.0 = most recent GNU Lesser GPL Is that unambiguous? > > which means LGPL. > >>> The distinction has to be made between «version 2 only» and «version 2 > or later» and between «version 3 only» and «version 3 and later» (even when, > in > that latter case, there is currently no version after 3). >> >> How do I figure this out from the files inside a given libdir? > > You can't. If it can make a difference for the Pd community, then the > authors of those files have to be contacted so that they rerelease the same > things with a more precise statement of license than just putting a > LICENSE.txt > file there. > >>> BTW, there are even cases where it just says GPL without version > number. >> >> I believe those cases are where the only info I had was a statement in a > README or somewhere that said "This software is released under the > GPL". Ok, I'll see what I can do. > > Yeah. That's also the best you could do with the info that you didn't > have, but it still means that the info is incomplete. Ok. -Jonathan > > ______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
