gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 21724aa6f4d62610af4a5a7dda6e31740eade410
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Dec 20 22:14:21 2025 -0600
[gperl]: Rationalize copyright licensing.
Bernd Warken stopped contributing to groff development ten years ago.
Six years before that, groff updated its use of the GPL from version 2
to version 3. I don't know if Bernd neglected to update the license
notices in his gperl files from v2 to v3, or deliberately stuck with v2.
I assume the latter, because he omitted the "or any later version"
phrasing that the FSF encourages GPL users to employ.
At the same time, Bernd's choice is not binding on the copyrightable
contributions of others, and groff has been distributed under GNU GPLv3
since 2009, a fact that cannot have escaped him.
Consequently, I'll be adding a copy of GPLv2 to contrib/gperl to reflect
Bernd's work, but retaining GPLv3-oriented license notices corresponding
to all work on it since then, which has mostly been done by GNU
maintainers of groff--Werner Lemberg, Bertrand Garrigues, and me.
$ git shortlog -s contrib/gperl/
29 Bernd Warken
11 Bertrand Garrigues
3 Bjarni Ingi Gislason
1 Dave Kemper
2 Eric S. Raymond
95 G. Branden Robinson
1 Ingo Schwarze
1 Norwid Behrnd
5 Steffen Nurpmeso
21 Werner LEMBERG
3 Werner Lemberg
I leave as an exercise for the GPLv3-phobic the extraction of Bernd's
GPLv2-licensed work from the current chem source configuration, should
anyone be interested in doing so.
---
contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
contrib/gperl/gperl.am | 36 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
contrib/gperl/gperl.pl | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
index e3d313348..c68128918 100644
--- a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
+++ b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man
@@ -11,15 +11,23 @@ documents
.\"
.\" Copyright 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
-.\" This file is part of gperl, which is part of groff, a free software
-.\" project.
+.\" This file is part of gperl.
.\"
-.\" You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
-.\" General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
-.\" version 2.
+.\" gperl is distributed with groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
.\"
-.\" The license text is available in the internet at
-.\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
+.\" groff 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 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" groff 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, see
+.\" <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
.
.\" Save and disable compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11).
diff --git a/contrib/gperl/gperl.am b/contrib/gperl/gperl.am
index b13f7b4f0..6c46e29be 100644
--- a/contrib/gperl/gperl.am
+++ b/contrib/gperl/gperl.am
@@ -1,26 +1,24 @@
-# Automake rules for 'gperl' (preprocessor for added Perl parts)
-
# Copyright 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
# Written by Bernd Warken <[email protected]>.
# Automake migration by Bertrand Garrigues
-
-# This file is part of 'gperl' which is part of groff.
-
-# groff 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.
-
-# groff 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.
-
+#
+# This file is part of gperl.
+#
+# gperl is distributed with groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
+#
+# groff 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 3 of the License, or (at your
+# option) any later version.
+#
+# groff 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, see
-# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
-
-########################################################################
+# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
bin_SCRIPTS += gperl
man1_MANS += contrib/gperl/gperl.1
diff --git a/contrib/gperl/gperl.pl b/contrib/gperl/gperl.pl
index cc1c22982..8ed9a35b9 100644
--- a/contrib/gperl/gperl.pl
+++ b/contrib/gperl/gperl.pl
@@ -3,27 +3,27 @@
# gperl - preprocess troff(1) input to execute embedded Perl code
#
# Copyright 2014-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-# 2025 G. Branden Robinson
+# 2025 G. Branden Robinson
#
# Written by Bernd Warken <[email protected]>.
# Enhanced by: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
#
-# This file is part of 'gperl'.
+# This file is part of gperl.
#
-# 'gperl' 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.
+# gperl is distributed with groff, the GNU roff typesetting system.
#
-# 'gperl' 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.
+# groff 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 3 of the License, or (at your
+# option) any later version.
#
-# You can find a copy of the GNU General Public License in the internet
-# at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
-
-########################################################################
+# groff 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, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
use strict;
use warnings;
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