Re: Fwd: Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of fb-livecd - savannah.gnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:05:01PM +0100, Daniel Bartlett wrote:

> Is this more correct? :
> 
> # Originally part of livecd-ng by Daniel Robbins <address@hidden>


No: this is correct e.g:
/* MS-DOS specific Lisp utilities.  Coded by Manabu Higashida, 1991.
   Major changes May-July 1993 Morten Welinder (only 10% original code
left)
   Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
   Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of GNU Emacs.

GNU Emacs 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, or (at your option)
any later version.

GNU Emacs 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 GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */


Also note that your files say you want to release under the gpl v2
only.  While you did not mention that in your registration (I could
have overread it, but I don't think so).

Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is problematic.
Would you please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3.  If you
don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that may
be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish.  If you have
concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", We'd be happy to address them
too.


> PS, thankyou for the time your having to take with me, this is the
> first time i have properly released somthing with GPL, its a bit of
> a learning curve.

Your welcome.

Rudy
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