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Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author


From: Peter and Jesse
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV question no licence or author
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:14:06 -0700

> It seems that we do *not* have to ask the author at all, since he has
> already granted us the choice(*), and we choose GPLv2 to be compatible
> with the Torvald's choice for the larger work.  Now if we wanted to
> distribute such a file as GPLv3, then I would ask the author, because we
> can only assume that he had the Linux kernel in mind when he used that
> language.
> 
> (*) Text found in all three versions of the GPL:
> 
> "If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you
> may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."
> 
Is this going to be our official practice? If so, we should change the
DocumentingYourWork site and maybe add it as an option in the kfv.el
program.
 Peter





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