On 7/8/15 2:27 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
Hello,
On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
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.
You are asking us about a file with non-public, unknown to us, contents and
history, probably originating from a time before my involvement in the project?
I don’t know about Colin, but I see no reason why my opinion should carry any
authority on what is or is not the intent of the author, or how can I even have
an opinion on this question about such an (almost hypothetical) file.
Mirek
Not exactly an ideal situation, is it? As I said, I asked the author
and he referred me here.
alan
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