[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:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:18:12 +0200, ludo at gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The website says "GPL" and links to
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php which lists GPLv2 and
> GPLv3. The file COPYING contains GPLv2 which states in 9. "If the
> Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may
> choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."

Then it’s GPLv2+, unless the headers specify a version number.

Thanks,
Ludo’.