From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:58:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: add license information In-Reply-To: <503538F7.9000102@lucaceresoli.net> References: <1345619321-4644-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> <20120822194521.48a4060c@skate> <503538F7.9000102@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <20120822215832.12e58fe5@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:54:31 +0200, Luca Ceresoli 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com