[distcc] distcc: licensing of files contributed by Alexandre Oliva
Alexandre Oliva
oliva at gnu.org
Thu Aug 1 11:17:12 MDT 2013
Hi,
Apologies for the delay.
On May 6, 2013, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Free Software Foundation holds copyright over these two files in
> distcc that have unclear licensing terms:
> - contrib/distcc-absolutify
> - contrib/netpwd
IIRC I wrote them as contributions to GCC, that's how they ended up with
FSF's copyrights, under Red Hat's assignment to the FSF.
>> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
>> by Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com>
>>
>> This script is Free Software, and it can be copied, distributed and
>> modified as defined in the GNU General Public License. A copy of
>> its license can be downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> The page at that URI is updated to refer to the most recently published
> version of the GNU GPL. At the time of copyright that was version 2.
That's correct.
> I suspect the intent of this notice was to distribute these files under
> GPLv2+, as per the majority of the distcc source.
Indeed. They were contributed to the FSF with the expectation that
they'd be released under GPLv2+ then.
> These notices should be replaced with the standard text so the intent
> is clear.
I agree.
--
Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi
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