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Re: GenerateManpage.hs license



On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:48:22PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> Hello, XMonad community.
> 
> As member of debian haskell group (cc-ed) I encountered licensing
> issue with file 'util/GenerateManpage.hs'. It's header says that it
> is GPL-licensed, but do not specify which one.
> 
> Would you be so kind to clarify this issue, preferable in upstream
> repository, specifying something more precise, like GPL-3+.

The dependency being Pandoc, which is licenced "GNU General Public
License version 2 or later".

I attach a git patch with the appropriate changes.
From 07c1e23dc6d19b537257fc19dfeecd7696be8ae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:10:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clarified the licence of GenerateManpage (dep.: pandoc)

---
 util/GenerateManpage.hs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/GenerateManpage.hs b/util/GenerateManpage.hs
index e96d076..d220780 100644
--- a/util/GenerateManpage.hs
+++ b/util/GenerateManpage.hs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
--- Unlike the rest of xmonad, this file is copyright under the terms of the
--- GPL.
+-- Unlike the rest of xmonad, this file is released under the GNU General
+-- Public License version 2 or later.
 
 --
 -- Generates man/xmonad.1 from man/xmonad.1.in by filling the list of
-- 
2.1.4

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