On Friday, August 3 at 02:23 AM, quoth Vincent Lefevre:
The debian/copyright file from the package says:
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.
This is correct.
but the COPYRIGHT file from upstream says:
All code in the Wcalc distribution which is Copyright Kyle Wheeler or
which references this COPYRIGHT file is licensed under the GPL version 2
included below.
This is out of date (corrected in the current CVS).
an the README file says:
Wcalc is made available under the GNU Public License (GPL), version 2.
The full text of the License is in the file titled COPYING as
distributed with the source, or is available here:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Also out of date, and also corrected in current CVS.
So, Wcalc seems to be distributed under GPLv2, not GPLv2+ as
debian/copyright says.
True, the last distribution was thus. It's distribution rules have
been updated.
Moreover, wcalc.1 says:
COPYRIGHT
wcalc is Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Kyle Wheeler.
It is freely distributed, and can be modified and used freely for any
purpose, as long as a copy of the modification is sent to Kyle Wheeler
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AFAIK, the "as long as a copy of the modification..." is incompatible
with the GPL (all versions).
Ooops! That's... really outdated. It's fixed in CVS.
The next release (which should happen relatively soon-ish) will
contain the changes necessary to allow wcalc to be licensed under
newer versions of the GPL in addition to v2.
~Kyle
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