declares GPL-3+, but provided full-text license is GPL-2+

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declares GPL-3+, but provided full-text license is GPL-2+

sten0 opened this issue 5 years ago · 3 comments

Hi,

I'm in the process of evaluating Atomic Chrome for Emacs for inclusion into the Debian archive. Emacs Websocket is a dependency of it. While reviewing the latter I noticed that all lisp files declare GPL-3+, but the provided full-text of the GPL is still 2+. For your convenience, here is a link to GPL-3+:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

Answer 1 · 2019-11-23T22:11:50.000Z

Fixed with 74e4b82. The actual GPL version is 2, so I moved the version mentioned in the GPL files back to 2, instead of 3. Thank you for catching this discrepancy.

Answer 2 · 2019-11-24T01:08:50.000Z

Hi Andrew, Andrew Hyatt <notifications@github.com> writes:

Fixed with 74e4b82. The actual GPL version is 2, so I moved the version mentioned in the GPL files back to 2, instead of 3. Thank you for catching this discrepancy.

You're welcome, and thank you for the quick fix :-) BTW since you write "in the GPL files" I have to ask if any of the files are not GPL-2+. I had been supposing that `testserver.py` was under the same license. Thanks, Nicholas

Answer 3 · 2019-11-24T16:53:06.000Z

Everything is under the same license.

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