From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: add license information
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:58:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120822215832.12e58fe5@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <503538F7.9000102@lucaceresoli.net>
Le Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:54:31 +0200,
Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> a ?crit :
> > I've applied your patch with GPLv2+, and we'll listen to comments from
> > others if they have a better idea on how to take the proper decision on
> > this.
>
> iostat has the same licensing policy.
>
> The GPLv2 (reported in the COPYING file for inotify-tools, as well as
> iostat)
> 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.
>
> So:
> INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPL
Even if the program includes a specific version of the GPL in its
COPYING file (in this case GPLv2) ?
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-22 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 7:08 [Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: add license information spdawson at gmail.com
2012-08-22 17:45 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-08-22 19:54 ` Luca Ceresoli
2012-08-22 19:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-08-22 20:08 ` Luca Ceresoli
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