Hello, I am a member of an upstream maintainer team that took over a project about 2 years ago, which is approximately 15 years old. We are the third generation of maintainers and lack contact with the previous developers.
The project is under GPLv2. This is stated on Microsoft GitHub, in the license file, and the header of each code file. However, only the known standard text of the GPLv2 has been copied without any modifications. Further information on the licensing is unknown to me. If I understand this standard text correctly, it does not explicitly state whether a project is "GPLv2-only" or "GPLv2-or-later". This distinction should be made elsewhere. But where exactly? How should I proceed if I cannot determine this with certainty, especially since I cannot get in touch with the previous authors anymore? Are there any precedents for this? Can I freely interpret the license and simply declare it as "-or-later"? Thanks for the information. Christian Buhtz <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime> _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list -- discussion@lists.fsfe.org To unsubscribe send an email to discussion-le...@lists.fsfe.org This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
