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Some files in Guix lack in-file license notice, does that make them GPL-
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Wojtek Kosior |
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Some files in Guix lack in-file license notice, does that make them GPL-3.0-only? |
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Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:20:49 +0100 |
Hi
at least the following files from Guix source tree
dir-locals.el
configure.ac
config-daemon.ac
bootstrap
README
have neither copyright nor license information in them. I believe it
prevents people from assuming that GPL v3 **or later** applies to those
files.
You know, the COPYING file in the source tree has just the text of
GPLv3. The permission to use a later GPL version only ever appears in
the source files themselves. But in case of the files listed above,
such extra permission is absent. As a result, all a receiver of the
source code can assume is that the terms from the COPYING file apply
here.
What should be done to fix this? Would it be welcome if I or someone
else reached out to the authors of those files to get a permission to
also use them under hypothetical later GPL versions?
Libre software projects are in general prone to this kind of licensing
ambiguities and FSFE's REUSE[1] specification seems like a good fix for
that. Would a patch that makes Guix repo REUSE-compliant be welcome?
Wojtek
[1] https://reuse.software/
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