[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r26978 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/libraries/xapian: . bindings

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> writes:

> xapian: gplv2 -> gpl (according to homepage), added myself as maintainer

[...]

>      description = "Bindings for the Xapian library";
>      homepage = xapian.meta.homepage;
> -    license = "GPLv2";
> +    license = "GPL";

“GPL” alone is quite vague.  It’s “version X or later”, or just
“version X”.  This can be found by checking the source file headers,
or, if they are lacking, the COPYING file.

Thanks,
Ludo’.