The license text in the installer wizard currently reads:
"Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble <etc>"
So it took me some time to figure out it's actually GPLv3.
If the name is specified explicitly, as at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt , this wouldn't happen. Moreover, this might be qualified as changing the license's verbatim text (which is not allowed).
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Anonymous
March 24, 2016 at 2:53 AM
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While you are at it, it's more foresightful to license it as GPLv3 or later. Further versions of GPL are aimed at, among other things, fixing found problems including incompatibilities with other free licenses (e.g. GPLv3 has been made compatible with ALv2). It there's no "or later" clause, the code's users can't employ those and will face problems when mixing code with that covered by a later version.
Robin Krom
March 23, 2016 at 2:02 PM
Changing to "fixed", as the needed changes are made. What is missing is the pull-request, build and doing the rollout, so the reporter can't work with it yet. Will report when the first build is available.
Robin Krom
March 23, 2016 at 2:01 PM
Actually it is GPLv2, which is a good point.
: I think it makes more sense to use GPLv3 anyway, here are the differences: http://www.ifross.org/en/what-difference-between-gplv2-and-gplv3 In general this is the same, but the license has a much clearer text. You can just "approve" the Pull-Request if you are okay with it.
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The license text in the installer wizard currently reads:
"Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
<etc>"
So it took me some time to figure out it's actually GPLv3.
If the name is specified explicitly, as at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt , this wouldn't happen.
Moreover, this might be qualified as changing the license's verbatim text (which is not allowed).