[darcs-devel] [patch704] replace copyright message with module doc

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Jan 26 08:05:56 UTC 2012


Will Langstroth writes:

 > Is "License: GPL" really that ambiguous? Maybe "GPLv2"?

"License: GPL" has a standard definition, which is "any version of the
GPL ever published by the FSF, at your option."  This is probably not
desirable.  GPL v1 had real problems (not big ones, but real ones;
unlike GPL v2, which had imaginary problems that they decided to fix
anyway ;-).  Using GPL v1 *now* creates a very big problem though;
it's license incompatible with almost everything.



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