Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Jan <address@hidden> skribis:

> Don't know if this is a good place, but gnome-color-manager in this
> commit:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=29ae18db0578bbdbc0119703f7412fe91927e80e
> has GPL2 license in the "license" field and the COPYING file also tells
> the license is GPL2, but if you check a random source file, for example
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-color-manager/blob/master/src/gcm-brightness.c
> Then files are licensed under GPL2 or any later.
>> * 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.
>
> I guess the license is GPLV2 then, but I'm not sure, can someone
> confirm this?

The “or any later version” wording is present in source file headers, so
it’s definitely ‘gpl2+’, not ‘gpl2’.

I fixed this one and a couple of others in
7bd000d104f79f2b1c51c48c9d01f247189f9935.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ludo’.