pylint license

Eric A. Borisch eborisch at macports.org
Thu Oct 27 10:34:20 PDT 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> Looks like it's actually GPL-2+, not GPL-2. This is an important
> distinction when there are dependencies or dependents that use a license
> like Apache-2 or GPL-3+ that conflicts with GPL-2.
>
> Unfortunately, with (L)GPL'd software the COPYING file usually just
> contains one acceptable license version, and does not give any
> information about whether later versions are allowed or not. If you're
> lucky it will be mentioned somewhere in the docs, but if not, you have
> to go to the license headers in the source files.
>
> - Josh
>

Thanks for catching that. Fixed (for pyNN-logilab-astng as well) in r86534

 -Eric


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