The GNU General Public License in COPYING file is outdated

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The GNU General Public License in COPYING file is outdated

Closed this issue 8 years ago · 2 comments

Update it please from The GNU General Public License version 2

Answer 1 · 2016-05-01T01:45:42.000Z

The current license seems to be the old version (with old FSF address) of the kernel's COPYING. Updating it to the FSF gpl-v2 would lose the kernel notice header, but there are no other diffs. Updating it to the current kernel's COPYING would introduce the smallest changes.

Since currently the repository still includes mtio.h from the kernel sources, I think we should keep the kernel notice (i.e. the code is GPL v2 exactly, and not "or later"). @kmakisara, what do you think?

Answer 2 · 2016-05-01T19:23:55.000Z

On 1.5.2016, at 4.45, Iustin Pop notifications@github.com wrote:

The current license seems to be the old version (with old FSF address) of the kernel's COPYING. Updating it to the FSF gpl-v2 would lose the kernel notice header, but there are no other diffs. Updating it to the current kernel's COPYING would introduce the smallest changes.

Since currently the repository still includes mtio.h from the kernel sources, I think we should keep the kernel notice (i.e. the code is GPL v2 exactly, and not "or later"). @kmakisara, what do you think?

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Kai