Licensing on early PolicyKit code

[Alan Perry]

On 7/8/15 2:27 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> Hello,
>> On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> Looking at PolicyKit 0.3, it does include some files using that license,
>>> but it also says
>>>> The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU
>>>> General Public License version 2.
>> This license comment is from a header file (libpolkit.h, the contents of
>> which does not match any libpolkit.h that I have seen in a PolicyKit
>> source release).
>>>> libpolkit is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free
>>>> License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2.
>>> which seems definitive enough. Also, David is listed as the original
>>> (only?) author, so I wonder why he redirected the query elsewhere.
>> AFL 2.1 or GPLv2 is what the people who integrated the code thought and
>> they selected AFL 2.1. Then a subsequent legal review looked at the
>> actual license information in each file and found what I reported above,
>> which is ambiguous.
>>
>> I was hoping that, as the author, David Z. would just confirm it is AFL
>> 2.1 or GPLv2, but, instead, he referred me to you guys, the current
>> maintainers.
> You are asking us about a file with non-public, unknown to us, contents and history, probably originating from a time before my involvement in the project?
>
> I don’t know about Colin, but I see no reason why my opinion should carry any authority on what is or is not the intent of the author, or how can I even have an opinion on this question about such an (almost hypothetical) file.
>      Mirek

Not exactly an ideal situation, is it?  As I said, I asked the author 
and he referred me here.

alan