Unintentionally hit 'Reply' instead of 'Reply-all'. Correcting that here.
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Subject: Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:31:36 -0700
From: Alan Perry <al...@snowmoose.com>
Organization: Snowmoose Software/British History Podcast
To: Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com>
On 7/13/15 7:11 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 13 July 2015 at 14:59, Alan Perry <al...@snowmoose.com> wrote:
Shouldn't anyone using open source code know what license applies in order
to be sure that they are in compliance with that license? As Simon implied,
there are differences between AFL 2.1 and GPLv2 and it would be good to know
which one should be followed.
I think it should be pretty clear by now, using the COPYING file or
the header section in any released version of PolicyKit should be more
than sufficient to conclude that the source isn't AFL.
Has this thread gotten so long that I need to go back and reference
stuff mentioned at the beginning?
As I mentioned, the code appears to be from PolicyKit before version
0.3. Miloslav confirmed that back then:
The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU
General Public License version 2.
libpolkit is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free
License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2.
I am talking about libpolkit.h, part of libpolkit, which has AFL as an
option.
Let me again quote the header section of the file in question:
* Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301 USA
Please explain to me how it is "pretty clear" that the source isn't AFL.
alan
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