On 4.2.2016 20:15, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I found that license file COPYING is different as compared with >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt If I pass over with >> Linus's preamble, change is only about whitespaces - tabs >> vs. space. Probably it's minor non-essential change, but some >> projects do this change, so rather I ask about that. > > Interesting. I cannot quite connect "some projects do this change" > and "so rather I ask". Are you asking why this project changed it? Nope. I apologize for my czenglish. It means: From my colleagues I hear, that some projects had same differences (tabs vs. spaces) in their copy of the license file and they make it later equivalent with the one in gnu.org. So I ask rather here / point out this difference, if you know about that or you want to have same one. Yes, I know, it's just about whitespaces. Petr. > > After running "diff" between the two, I think the changes are only > on the indented section title lines, and "git blame" tells us that > the section title lines in the copy we have has always been that way > since Linus added to it at 075b845a (Add a COPYING notice, making it > explicit that the license is GPLv2., 2005-04-11). > > So, perhaps the copy Linus got originally had leading runs of spaces > that are multiples-of-8-long unexpanded to leading tabs back then, > or perhaps he did that unexpanding himself. > >
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