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ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText
GNU General Public License v2.0
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License discrepancy? #620

Closed triallax closed 1 year ago

triallax commented 1 year ago

According to the README and from a quick look at the source code's license headers, ReText is under GPLv2 or later. However, LICENSE_GPL contains the text of the GPLv3. Is this a mistake?

mitya57 commented 1 year ago

Well, GPLv3 is one of possible “GPLv2 or later” variants.

Both GPLv2 and GPLv3 are fine, but when deciding which version to put into a LICENSE file, I put the latest version.

But if there is a valid reason to replace file with GPLv2, I will do it.

triallax commented 1 year ago

I don't know if it's incorrect to put GPLv3 in this case, but I can say that it's unusual (I've never seen somebody do this before) and also somewhat confusing.

triallax commented 1 year ago

Furthermore, GitHub detects the project's license from its license file, and thus confusingly show ReText's license as "GPL-3.0."