Which license is that?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Oct 21 14:30:28 PDT 2011


On Oct 21, 2011, at 16:26, Dan Ports wrote:
> One thing that thwarts the simplest analysis you might think of doing
> is that the COPYING file, if one exists, will not usually give you all
> the information you need. It's pretty common to just stick a verbatim
> copy of some version of the GPL in COPYING, without indicating whether
> they mean that specific version, any later version, or any version at
> all. It's not even particularly uncommon for packages to include a copy
> of the GPL in COPYING even though the software is under the LGPL or
> some other license or combination of licenses. So you really ought to
> look at the copyright header in the source files.

Well............. you're right about that. And I've done that manually before too. I guess I can't automate myself out of a job just yet.





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