[Buildbot-devel] Licensing clarification

[Brian Warner]

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> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:40:20 +0200
> "Gianluca Sforna" <giallu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> A new Fedora policy requires me to better specify the license of
> packages included in Fedora 8.

Good points.

Buildbot is currently distributed as GPLv2. I haven't had a chance to read
over v3.. I might switch to that in the future, but for now it's v2.
Unfortunately, the only mention of this fact has been a tiny note buried in
the README.

What I've just done:

* put a copy of GPLv2 in the source tree as COPYING

* enhance the note in the README to explicitly declare our GPLv2-ness, and
  point to the COPYING file


I'm less eager to add the boilerplate to every source file, mostly because I
find it distracting when reading source code, but I'll think about it.

> So, what I would need is an official statement from the copyright
> holder(s) about which version of the GPL the sources are covered (v1,
> v2, v2 or later, etc)

Please consider this (signed) message as just such an official statement.

thanks!
 -Brian

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