GPL - v2 or v3?
ajorg-aws opened this issue · 7 comments
Hello,
In #35 you've noted that "this is a rewrite of https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy, which forces this to be licensed under the same license (GPL) as the original library."
The Python package is licensed under GPL-2.0 without clarification if it's GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-2.0-only, and some implication in the commit message and the timing of when the Python project was relicensed from MIT to GPL-2.0 that it was probably meant to be GPL-2.0-only.
This port has a GPL-3.0 license file.
Was it your intention to license this project under GPL-2.0 to match the license of the original project? If so, would you have any objection to taking the GPL-2.0 license text instead of GPL-3.0?
Thanks!
The license must match the project it comes from - so it should be v2.
The license must match the project it comes from - so it should be v2.
Not necessarily.
This program 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 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
That being said, I have no objection in switching to GPL version 2. I'll update this soon.
Done
Thank you!
Hello. A colleague noticed that there's still a header.txt that references GPLv3. Can that be removed, or replaced with GPLv2 header text to make licensing more clear?
Hello. A colleague noticed that there's still a
header.txtthat references GPLv3. Can that be removed, or replaced with GPLv2 header text to make licensing more clear?
I've updated it.
Thanks!