[Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: add license information

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Aug 22 19:58:32 UTC 2012


Le Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:54:31 +0200,
Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net> a écrit :

> > I've applied your patch with GPLv2+, and we'll listen to comments from
> > others if they have a better idea on how to take the proper decision on
> > this.
> 
> iostat has the same licensing policy.
> 
> The GPLv2 (reported in the COPYING file for inotify-tools, as well as 
> iostat)
> states:
> 
>    If the Program does not specify a version number of
>    this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free 
> Software
>    Foundation.
> 
> So:
> INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPL

Even if the program includes a specific version of the GPL in its
COPYING file (in this case GPLv2) ?

Thomas
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