--- Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Hi,
>
> a few patches for hex-a-hop contain the following header:
>
> # Copyright (C) 2007 Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # Licensed under the GPL, see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
>
> Does the license (GPL) make sense? What is GPL?
You can safely replace GPL by GPL version 2 or later. It was me who added
those headers. I think we should clarify who did which patch and its license,
as well as we do with the packages.
> The link refers to GPL version 2 which makes sense for me. But not to
> specify the version seems just wrong.
You're right, it might be better to specify the version.
> I even read short time ago in Linux Magazin that something as
> "GPL version 2 or later" may be invalid as a person cannot license
> a work under a future license (GPL 4, ...) because he doesn't know
> the content of it.
I think that might be a topic for debian-legal, but I don't think it really
affects us too much in practice, apart of discussing about the angel's gender
:)
Greetings,
Miry
PS: It might be better to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for these
kind of discussions :)
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