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Magnetic tape control tools for Linux SCSI tapes
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The GNU General Public License in COPYING file is outdated #5

Closed svalx closed 8 years ago

svalx commented 8 years ago

Update it please from The GNU General Public License version 2

iustin commented 8 years ago

The current license seems to be the old version (with old FSF address) of the kernel's COPYING. Updating it to the FSF gpl-v2 would lose the kernel notice header, but there are no other diffs. Updating it to the current kernel's COPYING would introduce the smallest changes.

Since currently the repository still includes mtio.h from the kernel sources, I think we should keep the kernel notice (i.e. the code is GPL v2 exactly, and not "or later"). @kmakisara, what do you think?

kmakisara commented 8 years ago

On 1.5.2016, at 4.45, Iustin Pop notifications@github.com wrote:

The current license seems to be the old version (with old FSF address) of the kernel's COPYING. Updating it to the FSF gpl-v2 would lose the kernel notice header, but there are no other diffs. Updating it to the current kernel's COPYING would introduce the smallest changes.

Since currently the repository still includes mtio.h from the kernel sources, I think we should keep the kernel notice (i.e. the code is GPL v2 exactly, and not "or later"). @kmakisara, what do you think?

Sounds good.

Thanks, Kai