[directory-discuss] address@hidden: Re: Are license files and notices mandatory?]

[Richard Stallman]

Have people taken appropriate action with this?

Can someone ask the Adblock 3 developers to make their licensing clear?
And switch to GPL3-or-later, if they can?

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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 22:23:05 +0000
From: Marcin Cieslak <address@hidden>
To: David Hedlund <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [directory-discuss] Are license files and notices mandatory?
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, David Hedlund wrote:

> On 2018-07-15 23:04, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

> >   > |License=GPLv3
> >
> > That is unclear.
> 
> I agree with you.
> 
> > How is that package licened?
> > gpl3.0-only, or gpl3.0-or-later?
> 
> 
> > Does Adblock Plus have copy of GPL 3 in it somewhere?

Some of their package.json files contain "GPL-3.0" SPDX identifier, which
means this is a now deprecated designation for "GPL-3.0-only":

https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockpluscore/annotate/c05d9731b7ba/package.json#l4

I guess we are not using NPM registry as the metadata source yet?

Marcin

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