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rrthomas / libpaper

Library and command-line tools for configuring and getting information on paper sizes
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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exact license of `paperconf`? #58

Closed triallax closed 6 months ago

triallax commented 6 months ago

the readme says:

The paperconf program by Yyes Arrouye and Adrian Bunk is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence version 2.

this however doesn't make it clear whether the program is licensed under only version 2 or whether it allows using later versions of the GPL, can this please be clarified?

rrthomas commented 6 months ago

Sorry, what's unclear about it? It doesn't include the magic phrase "or, at your option, by later version", it's GPLv2 only.

triallax commented 6 months ago

thanks for clarifying

in my experience usually "only" is used for this purpose, e.g. "the GNU General Public Licence, version 2.0 only"

given it's a simple change, i think adding "only" (to the README and also the relevant source files) for clarity would be nice :)

rrthomas commented 6 months ago

I don't agree, I think it's perfectly clear already. But I'll happily accept a patch for #36, which provides precise machine-readable license info.

triallax commented 6 months ago

fair, i don't entirely agree but you clarified this for me and that was my main goal anyway :D