On Friday 26 December 2008 19:59:55 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Basically what is needed is to upgrade all the source headers from > > GPL2 to the following text: > > > > This file is part of groff. > > > > groff 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 3 of the > > License, or (at your option) any later version. > > > > groff 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 groff. If not, see > > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > > Yes, I think so. Further guidance can be found here: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html > > Note that the postal address of the FSF, the copyright holder of > groff, has changed too, IIRC. > > > So basically I need to rip out the GPL2 part and puts this one in > > place in each and every source file, and then just include the basic > > LICENSE and COPYING files from gplv3? > > Yes, all files which have a GPL text should be updated. Some files > have a more permissive license (see file LICENSES) and should be not > changed. It's probably easiest if you don't add new copyright > notices, just replacing existing v2 notices with the v3 text. > > > Shouldn't all prior contributors to groff also approve before their > > code is relicensed, or is this handled by the existing sentence > > saying "GPLv2 or later" in current source code? > > This is not necessary since all contributors have assigned the > copyright to the FSF, and the FSF wants all GNU projects be updated. > > > I downloaded the -current tarball and will base my changes on that > > one. How would you prefer me to submit those changes? > > Please use > > diff -aru <olddir> <newdir>
OK - Please see attached as a first attempt
groff-license-update-file.bz2
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