From calligra-devel Sun Jan 04 19:51:44 2015 From: Jaroslaw Staniek Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:51:44 +0000 To: calligra-devel Subject: Re: How to deal with typo "2" instead of "2.1" for "GNU Lesser General Public" in headers? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=calligra-devel&m=142040115921985 On 4 January 2015 at 19:18, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > >> can it be assumed (and should we) that all contributors actually agreed to >> the >> "2.1" version of the "Lesser" given there is no "2" version? > > > Yes. Oh, good find. Yes, except for new libraries, the intent is that any new file inherits license of other files, and from the library. So any usage non-existing license leads to this conclusion - it was a mistake. >> Especially as at least all files I checked also contain "or (at your >> option) >> any later version.", where "2.1" would be a theoretical later version of >> "2"? >> >> To be on the really safe side I guess one would need to get all >> contributors >> explicitely agree to the correct version. But pragmatically I would just >> assume people very much were in agreement with 2.1, and this can be >> considered >> just a typo. >> >> So would anyone strongly advise against simply applying a patch to all >> those >> license headers and change the "2" to "2.1"? >> > > Not me. Not me. Is it hard to find all emails we need? > > Boud > > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel