Re: Upstream pointing to COPYING file in headers

Hi Ben, 2015-05-01 22:52 GMT-03:00 Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au: It may be *intended* to grant some license, and that intention may be meaningful if a case is ever heard in court. But as it stands, that text does not IMO inform the recipient what they may and may not do with the

Re: Upstream pointing to COPYING file in headers

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:52:13AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Eriberto Mota eribe...@debian.org writes: --- (C) 2007-2009 Lluís Batlle i Rossell Please find the license in the provided COPYING file. --- That is an assertion of copyright without a grant of license. Nonsense. There is

Re: Upstream pointing to COPYING file in headers

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 08:59:14AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:52:13AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Eriberto Mota eribe...@debian.org writes: --- (C) 2007-2009 Lluís Batlle i Rossell Please find the license in the provided COPYING file. --- That is an

Re: Upstream pointing to COPYING file in headers

2015-05-02 20:40 GMT-03:00 Josue Abarca jmasli...@debian.org: Also note that the final part of GPL 2 section 9 [G1] states: ... If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. I suppose that can