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alobbs / macchanger

GNU MAC Changer
http://www.gnu.org/software/macchanger
GNU General Public License v3.0
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macchanger 1.6.0 lost copying information #3

Closed thoger closed 10 years ago

thoger commented 11 years ago

macchanger update form 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 removes COPYING file that contains licensing information. There's also no license information in the README, so one has to look into all source to find out.

Both GNU and downstream vendor packaging guidelines strongly encourage inclusion of the license text:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Releases.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License_Text

Please consider mentioning license in the README explicitly, in addition to re-adding COPYING, given that current license is GPLv2 or later.

alobbs commented 11 years ago

That was unintentional. macchanger 1.7.0 ought to ship the COPYING file again.

alobbs commented 10 years ago

https://github.com/alobbs/macchanger/commit/f4f66e1eba1f5154a365d3323088050d0f75a168 fixed it.

thoger commented 10 years ago

The commits adds GPL 3 text to COPYING, while all source files keep saying GPL 2 or later. Is this intentional re-license to be GPL 3+?

alobbs commented 10 years ago

Yes, it is, indeed. GNU MAC Changer should be distributed under the GPLv3+ from now on.

thoger commented 10 years ago

Thank you for the clarification!

dpaleino commented 10 years ago

It would be best if this was fixed in the source files too ;)