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Re: [Gtick-devel] License clarification (GPL 2.0 vs 3.0)


From: Roland Stigge
Subject: Re: [Gtick-devel] License clarification (GPL 2.0 vs 3.0)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:34:22 +0200
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Hi,

thanks for reporting!

The translation seems to be out of date: The definitive statement is as
written in English (GPLv3).

Roland



On 09/24/2012 01:29 PM, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A legal review, while trying to subimit GTick 0.5.1 to openSUSE Factory
> (development project for the next version of openSUSE) revealed some
> inconsistencies with the license texts being presented to the users:
> 
> The english text states that the license is GPL-3.0+ but the corresponding
> translated text states the license is GPL-2.0+.
> 
> 109420 > "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\n"
> 109420 > "modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License\n"
> 109420 > "as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3\n"
>       >> "of the License, or (at your option) any later version.\n"
>        > "\n"
> 111316 > "This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
> useful,\n"
> 111316 > "but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\n"
> 111316 > "MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the\n"
> 111316 > "GNU General Public License for more details.\n"
>        > "\n"
>       >> "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
> License\n"
>        > "along with this program; if not, see
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>."
>        > msgstr ""
>        > "GTick - Metronom\n"
>        > "Copyright (c) 1999, Alex Roberts <address@hidden>\n"
>        > "Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Roland Stigge
> <address@hidden>\n"
>        > "\n"
>       >> "GTick je free software; m??ete jej redistribuovat a upravovat\n"
>       >> "za podmínek GNU General Public License zve?ejn?né Free
> Software\n"
>       >> "Foundation; a to bu? verze 2 licence, nebo (podle va?eho
> uvá?ení)\n"
>        > "libovolné pozd?j?í verze.\n"
> 
> Can you please clarify, and if possible, in the not too distant future,
> have a release addressing this issue?
> 
> Thank you very much, and keep up the good work!
> 
> Dominique / DimStar
> 
> 
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