On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
On 7/8/15 12:23 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early
PolicyKit code and David Zeuthen referred me here.
The licensing comment reads:
* Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1
Which “some code” is this exactly? The current git repo doesn’t contain the
word “Academic” at all, for example.
Mirek
That is a good question. It seems to pre-date PolicyKit 0.3, which is
the earliest release that I could find searching the internet.
Looking at PolicyKit 0.3, it does include some files using that license, but it
also says
The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU
General Public License version 2.
This license comment is from a header file (libpolkit.h, the contents of
which does not match any libpolkit.h that I have seen in a PolicyKit
source release).
libpolkit is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free
License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2.
which seems definitive enough. Also, David is listed as the original (only?)
author, so I wonder why he redirected the query elsewhere.
AFL 2.1 or GPLv2 is what the people who integrated the code thought and
they selected AFL 2.1. Then a subsequent legal review looked at the
actual license information in each file and found what I reported above,
which is ambiguous.
I was hoping that, as the author, David Z. would just confirm it is AFL
2.1 or GPLv2, but, instead, he referred me to you guys, the current
maintainers.
alan
Mirek
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