Re: [PATCH] Add dcfldd

[mhw]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> writes:

> Bishmer J. Sekaran writes:
>
>> re: Licensing, my impression was that "gpl2+" only applies if the 
>> authors specifically invoke "any later version" when they distribute the 
>> software, per clause 9 of the GPL 2
>
> [...]
>
>> Upstream lists the project as:
>> "License
>> GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)"
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcfldd/
>>
>> Am I in error?
>
> In some cases the "or later" clause is only mentioned in the source file
> headers.  I see, from a brief glance at the source, that this is the
> case for dcfldd.

I believe the copyright notices in the source files are ultimately what
determines the license.  If the source files include copyright notices
with the "any later version" language, then the license is in fact
gpl2+.  This is also my expectation given that 'dcfldd' was forked from
GNU dd, which was presumably covered by gpl2+ at the time of the fork.

     Thanks!
       Mark