On 6/16/25 09:47, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
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.
OK. Then, let's forget about this replacement.
Thanks,
C.
