From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: [git-multimail] License unknown (#1) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: <5105778A.1040401@alum.mit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mhagger/git-multimail , Michiel Holtkamp To: git discussion list , Andy Parkins X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 27 20:00:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TzXSw-0001Rt-Dg for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:00:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754679Ab3A0TAJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:00:09 -0500 Received: from ALUM-MAILSEC-SCANNER-8.MIT.EDU ([18.7.68.20]:46573 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754634Ab3A0TAH (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:00:07 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 423 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:00:06 EST X-AuditID: 12074414-b7f9b6d0000008b3-9e-5105778ec37f Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-8.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id E0.A0.02227.E8775015; Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:53:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.69.140] (p57A25FD5.dip.t-dialin.net [87.162.95.213]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id r0RIqxUg028124 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:53:00 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFlrJKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixO6iqNtXzhpoMOeRsMXxp9dZLLqudDNZ dC4qtpiwaBmjA4vHwlnPWTx2zrrL7tE4dyGrx+dNcgEsUdw2SYklZcGZ6Xn6dgncGS0Hogpe 81Q8mt/H3MC4kauLkZNDQsBE4sTtw4wQtpjEhXvr2boYuTiEBC4zSux8+4kdwjnDJHHvwlRW kCpeAW2JD52HWEBsFgFVifcHprGB2GwCuhKLepqZQGxRgTCJ3tfnGCHqBSVOznwCVi8iECPx b9VEsA3MAosZJd6/2wNUxMEhLGAo0XpKG8QUEsiReHK0FqScU8BR4s2SO+wgYWYBdYn184RA wswC8hLb385hnsAoMAvJglkIVbOQVC1gZF7FKJeYU5qrm5uYmVOcmqxbnJyYl5dapGuhl5tZ opeaUrqJERLIIjsYj5yUO8QowMGoxMMbnMkSKMSaWFZcmXuIUZKDSUmU914+a6AQX1J+SmVG YnFGfFFpTmrxIUYJDmYlEd75lUDlvCmJlVWpRfkwKWkOFiVx3m+L1f2EBNITS1KzU1MLUotg sjIcHEoSvL5lQEMFi1LTUyvSMnNKENJMHJwgw7mkRIpT81JSixJLSzLiQTEaXwyMUpAUD9Be ZpB23uKCxFygKETrKUZjjhk/2p8zcmz/DSSFWPLy81KlxHlNQEoFQEozSvPgFsFS2CtGcaC/ hXntQKp4gOkPbt4roFVMQKuye5lBVpUkIqSkGhhrJF30Hh/jlPF1kb2wtWH+iw+SvOEWPU7c JywXspxNmlzEbHA8YMuOxMMzQ2QuOtcV9vl72+81cK9Nu/0h++jm/c7Kxmd5Qxr/ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I have a question about the license of contrib/hooks/post-commit-email. I had assumed that since it is in the git project, which is GPLv2, and since it contains no contrary information, it would by implication also fall under GPLv2. But the file itself contains no explicit license information, and it is not clear to me that the "signed-off-by" line implies a particular license, either. (The signed-off-by *does* seem to imply that the source code is under some kind of open source license, but not which one.) If somebody can explain what license the code is under and how they come to that conclusion, I would be very grateful. And if Andy Parkins (the original author) is listening, please indicate whether you had any intent *other* than GPLv2. For anybody who is interested, the file was first committed in 4557e0de5b and has been modified by several authors since then. Given the pretty clear open-sourciness of the script, I don't think this has to be made into a big issue. But it would be nice to state the license explicitly for future users' information. Thanks, Michael On 01/27/2013 02:38 PM, Michiel Holtkamp wrote: > Actually, I'm not sure that it is GPLv2 for the original script. The > COPYING file in the main project declares the project as GPLv2, but it > also says that people contributing should make their preferences (for > licensing) known. Maybe we can assume it's GPLv2, (as the original > writer might have assumed it was GPLv2), but it's not explicitly stated > so I'm not sure (IANAL). -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/