From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:08:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: add license information In-Reply-To: <20120822215832.12e58fe5@skate> References: <1345619321-4644-1-git-send-email-spdawson@gmail.com> <20120822194521.48a4060c@skate> <503538F7.9000102@lucaceresoli.net> <20120822215832.12e58fe5@skate> Message-ID: <50353C4F.50800@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > 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) ? That's the file that contains the text I quoted, so I'd say yes. I just sent a patch to fix this, but of course you should wait for other comments before applying if you're in doubt. Luca