On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:20:36 +0000 David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/ > > says "Mercurial is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU > General Public License Version 2." If one clicks the link to the > license > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt > > it says GPL 2, with no mention of GPLv2+, or "any later version", so > I'm unsure how you arrive at that. > > The Pari page has a link to > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > > which is GPL 3, but the source code has a COPYING file that starts: > > GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE > Version 2, June 1991 > > So I'm unsure how you arrive at either of those conclusions, though > the Pari case is confusing. > Excuse me, but wouldn't it be better to just ask the upstream developers of the packages of interest to clear this ambiguity and to fix the mismatch between the website info (which is likely to be more up-to-date) and the source codes?
And by the way, FSF seems to provide some help in resolving license-related issues including licenses compliance as far as I know: http://www.fsf.org/licensing Maybe they could also help clearing up the questions regarding GPLv3 licensing? Regards, Vladimir ----- <v...@ukr.net> -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
