Licensing on early PolicyKit code

[Richard Hughes]

If it helps, HAL was originally AFL and GPL dual licenced, and I suppose
the file header could have been copied from hal to polkit as it was the
same maintainer (David Z). I'm pretty sure PolicyKit was just supposed to
be GPLv2+.

Richard

On 8 July 2015 at 16:56, Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early PolicyKit
> code and David Zeuthen referred me here.
>
> The licensing comment reads:
>
> * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1
> *
> * 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 2 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, write to the Free Software
> * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301  USA
>
> Should this code be considered to be under the AFL 2.1 license or the
> GPLv2 license?
>
> Thanks,
>
> alan
>
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