Re: [Evolution-hackers] Copyright of Camel's individual source files

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

The license should read GPLv2 (no "or later" clause) as far as I know.

Jeff


On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 12:08 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> The README.COPYRIGHT of EDS's Camel states:
> 
>  * 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.
> 
> Whereas a lot of files (like, camel-address.c, to pick one example) state:
> 
>  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>  * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU Lesser General Public
>  * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> 
> It looks like EDS's COPYING file also uses the "any later version"
> version of the GPL v2.
> 
> I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to have mixed licenses for one
> piece of code (being Camel). Would it be possible to change the license
> of all of EDS's files to be the same?
> 
> Note that Novell/Ximian seems to be the copyright holder of all files,
> that of course means this organisation makes this decision.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
>