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Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author
From: |
Bake Timmons |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:46:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> When you find a file without author or licence, is assumed that is part
> of the kernel and licenced under GPLv2. You will find this in some
> Makefile. In the other hand there is the possibility of a licence not
> specified, like "this is under GNU licence", without a version of the
> licence. Then you must email the author and ask about the file.
By "under GNU license", I think you mean "under the GPL". I recall
different answers to this question from the thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2008-03/threads.html#00072
It seems that we do *not* have to ask the author at all, since he has
already granted us the choice(*), and we choose GPLv2 to be compatible
with the Torvald's choice for the larger work. Now if we wanted to
distribute such a file as GPLv3, then I would ask the author, because we
can only assume that he had the Linux kernel in mind when he used that
language.
(*) Text found in all three versions of the GPL:
"If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you
may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."
- [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Luis Alberto Guzmán García, 2008/04/04
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Briareo Hecatonquiro, 2008/04/04
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author,
Bake Timmons <=
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Peter and Jesse, 2008/04/04
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Bake Timmons, 2008/04/04
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Karl Goetz, 2008/04/04
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Bake Timmons, 2008/04/04
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author, Karl Goetz, 2008/04/04