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Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py


From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 21:54:14 +0100

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 03:40:59PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
Good point - PIDL is already mentioned at the top of COPYING in this way.

I know :-)

Now the question becomes, are we legally required to list *all*
additional licenses in COPYING, or only when the license itself
requires it? There are currently a couple of licenses which we carry
but aren't listed in COPYING, in addition to GPLv3 (html2text.py) and
GPLv3+ (PIDL) which is mentioned but not included.

For me it's not really a matter of "legally required" but a matter of politeness.
So while all the "real" source files require a GPLv2(+) compatible license I don't
mind adding a paragraph like this:
The following source files contain code not covered by but compatible with the
GNU General Public License version 2:
<list of files>

Ciao
      Jörg

-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer () loplof de>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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