On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 14:22:39 -0500 bill-auger <[email protected]> wrote:
> there is a package in pcr-testing - could ppl try it, and verify > that it works properly > > i am not impressed with the licensing of this code-base - i see > no indication of the license, other than a GPL file itself - > unlike a permissive license, it is not sufficient to simply drop > a GPL file into a codebase - it must explicitly associated with > some files, somehow - so strictly, i beleive that it is not > licensed at all; because the author reserves the claim that it > was not intended to apply to all portions of the code; because > no part of the codebase states any exceptions to standard > copyright - it just so happens to include a GPL file, for > reasons unknown by any receiver - though it is a petty detail > (the author very likely intended to license it GPL3), parabola > probably should not accept the code-base, as it is The GPL HOWTO[1] has the following explanation for having copyright headers and/or a statement in the README in addition of the COPYING file: > The purpose of a free software license is to give certain rights to > all users of a program. If it is not clear what rights you have given > them, that defeats the purpose. Our practices are designed to avoid > any uncertainty. > > If a program has a copy of a license FOO alongside the source files, > but doesn't have an explicit statement that “This program is released > under license FOO,” that leaves room for uncertainty about whether > the license FOO applies to the code of that program. So as bill-auger stated, the way to go here is to send a patch upstream to add the license in the README and/or in the headers. That should be relatively easy to do. Then we could simply wait for a new release or add the few patches between the last release and when the license has been clarified. References: ----------- [1]https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html Denis.
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