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(Archive Only: Merged into Forge proper) The Forge Mod Loader - an opensource replacement mod loader for minecraft
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Some boilerplate license text refers to an incorrect GPL link #659

Closed Glease closed 9 years ago

Glease commented 9 years ago

Well, I'm just trying to lift some comments into my mod from fml, but I found something wrong: You said fml is "available under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License v2.1" then you said "and is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html" I got confused by the url, then I followed it to page and found some GPLv2 thingy. OMG, we got a problem. Those MIT, Apache, BSD guys shall got into prison then!( kidding) You need to fix these links ASAP (as I'm among those shall die)

yuuka-miya commented 9 years ago

Is this even valid?

cpw commented 9 years ago

@luacs1998 no, he's making up bullshit. FML is LGPL2.1 - this is the TEXT of the license. Commentary or anything else is subservient to this text: https://github.com/MinecraftForge/FML/blob/master/LICENSE-fml.txt

@Glease don't be a bloody fool and try and foment rage with this nonsense. I have no idea where you think I've ever said FML is gpl2.0. It has been LGPL 2.1 since it's inception in 2012.

Glease commented 9 years ago

@cpw please give me explanation about those confusing source file headers. Please take a look at the URL, too, not the LICENSE NAME only. I'll submit a pull request to the "Forge proper" to fix this little bug. Take a look at this

cpw commented 9 years ago

The text in each file is boilerplate copied directly from the licence site at the time of creation. If the boilerplate is wrong, I really don't care. I'm not gonna accept a PR modifying thousands of files.