On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 09:29:35AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > On 6/16/25 09:13, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 07:29:09AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > > > Hello Sean, > > > > > > On 6/13/25 18:44, Sean Wei wrote: > > > > Some of the GPLv2 boiler-plate still contained the > > > > obsolete "51 Franklin Street" postal address. > > > > > > > > Replace it with the canonical GNU licenses URL recommended by the FSF: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sean Wei <me@sean.taipei> > > > > > > Instead, I would remove the license boiler plate and add : > > > > > > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later > > > > This is *NOT* something we are doing for existing code sources, > > unless the person removing it is the exclusive copyright > > holder on the file. > Ah. So I misunderstood. > > How is license boiler plate different from the SPDX identifier tag ?
It achieves the same aims, but notice GPL clause 1 "keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;" and yes, some projects have none the less done a wholesale replacement of boilerplate. I don't know how they rationalized ignoring this license requirement. It is simpler to just preserve boilerplate as-is that to debate the legal nuances of this. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
