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akaihola / hardlinkpy

hardlink.py is a tool to hardlink together identical files in order to save space. Forked from the original version by John L. Villalovos.
http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Clean up license file #8

Open akaihola opened 6 years ago

akaihola commented 6 years ago

The COPYING file contains the GNU GPL v2 license text, but also describes how to use it for new projects (in the "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section starting on line 282). Would it be appropriate to remove that section to avoid confusion (mentions strange example company names etc)?

chadnetzer commented 6 years ago

I'd leave it, since it is part of the text of the official GPL downloadable at: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

If anything, I'd suggest replacing with the downloadable version (which has a few trivial whitespace differences), so that the SHA sums match. There are license scanners out there that check for these things for compliance reasons, and it's probably best to match with the official upstream file.