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Subject: Re: License
From: Jan-Michael Brummer <jan.brummer@tabos.org>
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Hi,

ffgtk is GPLv2 only, no GPLv3. I'll change the manpage.

Jan

Am Freitag, den 19.11.2010, 21:53 +0100 schrieb Louis Lagendijk:
> hello Jan
> I am getting some comments on the license situation for ffgtk (see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592487 ):
> 
> 
> I can't determine the GPL version in use.  The source files don't seem
> to
> specify a version, but the manpage has the proper notice in comments at the
> top:
> 
> "
> .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
> .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
> .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> "
> 
> but of course that only applies to the documentation.
> 
> Further down in the manpage:
> 
> "
> .SH LICENSE
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.
> "
> 
> which makes... no sense.  I'll block FE-Legal; you should get upstream to
> clarify.
> 
> Can we make the license in the header of the sources more explicit by including the standard statement (taken from libcapifax):
> 
> /*********************************************************************************
>  * libcapifax.h
>  *
>  * Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Marco Zissen <maz@v3v.de>
>  *
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>  * (at your option) any later version.
>  *
>  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>  * GNU General Public License for more details.
>  *
>  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>  * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
>  *********************************************************************************/
> 
> Is the license GPLv2 or GPLv2 or later?
> The LICENSE in the manpage seems to be truncated:
> .SH LICENSE
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License ????????.
> "
> 
> Thanks in advance for your response
> Louis
> 
>