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code.google.com field "Code license" reads "GNU GPL v2", should add "or (at your option) any later version" #75

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
> What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open http://code.google.com/p/opkg/
2. Read the left column, it shows:

Code license
GNU GPL v2 

> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The expected reading below "Code license" should likely be:
"GNU GPL v2+" or
"GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version"

> Please provide any additional information below.

As far as I can see, all copyright licenses in the source files read:

   This program 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.

Some notices (like the one in md5.c/h) have different line wrapping,
but read the same:

$ grep -r 'GNU General Public License as' trunk/lib*/ | wc
    204    2764   21600
$ grep -A2 -r 'GNU General Public License as' trunk/lib*/ | grep ' later 
version' | wc
    204    1284   14852

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kont...@wienermelange.eu on 1 Mar 2011 at 1:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
code.google.com only allows one to select the project's license with a drop 
down box. It does not have a free form text field. "GNU GPL v2" is the option 
which most closely matches the the code.

Note that sha256.c/sha256.h are GPLv3 licensed. If you build opkg with 
--enable-sha256, you must distribute your opkg binaries under the terms of the 
GPLv3. The sha256 code is disabled by default for this reason.

Original comment by graham.g...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2011 at 6:30