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Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation



Hi Anthony,

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:42:33PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> Each author *should*, as a matter of *courtesy*, explicitly mention the  
> licence in all of their files,

Yes, I agree, in general, but it's still not clear to me that section 12 of
LGPL can't be interpreted as "you can put a single GPL header" just like
"2 or later" in a GPLv2+ header can be interpreted as "you can update the
version number and use a single header".

What would be the difference?

> and *should* *not* use a different  
> licence when modifying a different author's original files.

That depends on whether the original author chose license terms that would
allow this.  In this case they did.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."


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