On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:17:01AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:28:35PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I realized it'd be nice to include instructions
>> on how to build from a just-cloned repository, so copied
>> most of this new file, README-hacking, from coreutils:
> [...]
>> +Copyright (C) 2002-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> +
>> +This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
>> +(at your option) any later version.
>> +
>> +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> +GNU General Public License for more details.
>> +
>> +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> +along with this program. If not, see <
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>
> Good idea but let's keep things LGPL :-)
>
> ACK once changed to proper Licence
Doesn't the LGPL vs. GPL(3) issue matter only
for something that is linked into the library?
A README in the top level directory exposing a GPL licence is
an invitation to confusion. So no I stand by this, too bad if this means
we need to rewrite the part instead of copying it.
Daniel
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