Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mtd-utils.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2016-09-01 15:13 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:59:11 +0200
>>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are there GPLv2 license headers that lack the “or any later version”
>>>> wording, or anything that explicitly says “version 2 only”?  If not,
>>>> it’s v2-or-later.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> ./mkfs.ubifs/crc16.h: ' * Implements the standard CRC-16: * Width 16 *
>>> Poly 0x8005 ( x^16 + x^15 + x^2 + 1 ) * Init 0 * * Copyright ( c )
>>> 2005 Ben Gardner <address@hidden> * * This code was taken from
>>> the linux kernel. The license is GPL Version 2.  '
>>
>> OK, GPLv2-only!
>
> Wait, why?  There are files that have a full license headers with "or
> any later version", for example "docfdisk.c", "flash_erase.c" and
> others.  That's why I thought both gpl2 and gpl2+ should be listed.

But they are combined, so the combined work, which is what we (should)
care about, is ‘gpl2’.

At least that’s how I usually do it, but I agree that this is an
undocumented convention that’s probably not unanimously followed.

Ludo’.