Fwd: Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

[Alan Perry]

Unintentionally hit 'Reply' instead of 'Reply-all'. Correcting that here.


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Subject: 	Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code
Date: 	Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:31:36 -0700
From: 	Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com>
Organization: 	Snowmoose Software/British History Podcast
To: 	Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>



On 7/13/15 7:11 AM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 13 July 2015 at 14:59, Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
>> Shouldn't anyone using open source code know what license applies in order
>> to be sure that they are in compliance with that license? As Simon implied,
>> there are differences between AFL 2.1 and GPLv2 and it would be good to know
>> which one should be followed.
> I think it should be pretty clear by now, using the COPYING file or
> the header section in any released version of PolicyKit should be more
> than sufficient to conclude that the source isn't AFL.

Has this thread gotten so long that I need to go back and reference
stuff mentioned at the beginning?

As I mentioned, the code appears to be from PolicyKit before version
0.3. Miloslav confirmed that back then:
> The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU
> General Public License version 2.
>
> libpolkit is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free
> License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2.
I am talking about libpolkit.h, part of libpolkit, which has AFL as an
option.

Let me again quote the header section of the file in question:
> * 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

Please explain to me how it is "pretty clear" that the source isn't AFL.

alan




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