On 03/19/2018 10:37 PM, Martin Wilck wrote: > On Sat, 2018-03-10 at 21:50 +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> Less prone to future modifications, and new FSF licences >> point exactly to this url: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. >> >> First clean up was done in 5619a39c433ac3d10a88079593cec1aa6472cbeb >> >> Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> > IANAL, but AFAICS multipath-tools comes under GPLv2, and the GPLv2 https://git.opensvc.com/gitweb.cgi?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=blob_plain;f=COPYING;hb=HEAD GNU *LIBRARY* GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 aka "Lesser", but rules are the same as in GPL. > still contains the original paragraph with the address. > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html#howto from https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html : "[...] Foobar 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Foobar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Foobar. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. To use a different set of GPL versions, you would modify the end of the first long paragraph. For instance, to license under version 2 or later, you would replace “3” with “2”. [...]" Anyway, that text is a "licence notice" and is not "part of the licence": > Replacing this by the text from GPLv3, and using the "/licenses/" link, > which points to a page mostly devoted to GPLv3, might cause people to > think we're using GPLv3. I'm in favor of keeping the GPLv2 wording. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ is a _generic_ place. There is info about ALL licences and versions. It would be nice to start using SPDX tags ( https://spdx.org/ ), at least for new files, instead of full GPL/LGPL notices: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rrin0LlobTFYYciQ2 BTW: LFC191 Compliance Basics for Developers course is FREE https://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/open-source-compliance-courses/compliance-basics-for-developers -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
