Bug#751534: RFS: crunch/3.6-1 [ITP] -- tool for creating wordlist
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 10:25 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Tobias Frost <tobi@coldtobi.de>, 2014-06-29, 10:00:
> >On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 01:00 -0300, Marcio de Souza Oliveira wrote:
> >>I got it wrong. But I see
> >>GPLv2(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt) and and there contains
> >>the words "... or (at your option) any later version.".
> >>
> >>If I remove the words "or (at your option) any later version." I would
> >>not be modifying the license?
> >
> >Yes, you'd change the license (which'd be a no-no)
>
> Well, that's novel interpretation of the GPL. :-)
>
> The part of the license that was quoted is just an example how to use
> the license for you own programs, not a part of terms and conditions. It
> is NOT obligatory to use the “any later” phrase (see §9).
>
> >Instead you write "License: GPL-2.0+" (note the plus) to indicate the
> >"any later version option".
>
> No. We must document which license upstream uses, and they chose GPL
> version 2 only.
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
You're right, thought that GPL2.0+ had been quoted from the source.
I obviously missed/ignored the very first paragraph in the original
mail. Don't mail without enough coffee :-|
I'd write then:
License: GPL-2.0
This program 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, version 2 only of the License.
(...)
(This paragraph is quoted from the source)
--
tobi
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