Bug#179672: RFP: SQUASHFS -- A squashed read-only filesystem for Linux

[Drew Scott Daniels <umdanie8@cc.UManitoba.CA>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Ola Lundqvist wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:14:18PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> > * License : GNU General Public License (GPL)
> > The README file says the license is "GPL licence (version 2 or later)",
> > but the sourceforge project says "GNU General Public License (GPL)".
>
> These two are perfectly the same license. GPL is an acronym for
> General Public License.
>
I agree that it's reasonable to assume that they are the same General
Public License. You might be surprised to learn that the GNU GPL isn't the
only GPL out there.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesGPLStandFor says:
	"GPL" stands for "General Public License". The most widespread
	such license is the GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for
	short. This can be further shortened to "GPL", when it is
	understood that the GNU GPL is the one intended.

I only put in my note about the README to make it clear what the license
is. I was informed of this when discussing another License referring to the
GNU GPL on debian-legal.

     Drew Daniels