Licensing on early PolicyKit code

[Alan Perry]

Thanks.

So, for the dual licensing, is there an implied "OR" between the two 
licensing clauses? IANAL, but I don't think AFL and GPL are compatible 
enough for it to be an "AND".

alan

On 7/8/15 9:36 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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