Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Remove ambiguities in the COPYING file; add CONTRIBUTING file

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2016 10:56, "George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> +GPL v2 License
>> +--------------
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * <File name>
>> + *
>> + * <One line description of the file and what it does>
>> + * 
>> + * Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author and/or company>
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
>> + * License v2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
>Should this line have "only" in it somewhere?

I don't believe this is necessary. I couldn't find a single instance in
our codebase which says "version 2 only".

Most files have the following:

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
 * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.


which spells out the version with comma's and has slightly different line
breaks. I think it may be better to use that, as FOSSology creates less
noise with this variant of the header: it creates one GPLv2 entry, whereas
the previous one creates a GPL and a GPLv2 entry.

Regards
Lars

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