[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: The license data I hope I read it right.

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

(Please keep in mind that I'm not a native English speaker, take your
time to explain things :))



On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:03:18AM -0700, Leo Jackson wrote:
> Sylvain Beucle, 
> 
> <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
>     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
> 
>     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>     (at your option) any later version.
> 
>     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>     GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
>     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>     along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> 
> Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
> 
> so to GPLv3 would be.
> 
> Program the great program. It make things great.
>     Copyright (C) 2008  Leo Albert Jackson Jr.
> 
>     This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>     (at your option) any later version.
> 
>     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>     GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
>     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>     along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> 
> address@hidden 
> 1032 Breck Street 
> Scranton, Pa 18505
> 
> If I read this wrong I have to alter my program. This is header of files 
> correct.

OK, good.

> old header GPLv2 and earlier
> 
> Program the great program. It make things great.
>  Copyright (C) 1999-2001 LJ's Electronics and Software 
> 
>  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
>  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> 
>  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>  GNU General Public License for more details.
> 
>  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA
> or address new. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA

You need to give only the new address.

> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
> 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
> 
> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

The above is only in the COPYING file, not in the license headers.

> Authors Leo Jackson
>  
> Version 2 updated license with new address.
> 
> Leo Albert Jackson Jr
> Owner Head Programmer
> LJ's Electronics and Software

-- 
Sylvain