WWN license issue

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes alex at thehandofagony.com
Fri Jan 18 10:26:39 CST 2008


On Tuesday 15 January 2008 21:33:41 Jeremy Newman wrote:
> I'll patch it so it points to the GPL v2 licence, unless someone feels
> there is a reason it needs to be v3.
>

Now that you mention it, since we are trying to move the AppDB to the Affero 
GPL v3, it would be nice to have the WWN covered by the similar GLP v3 :)


Alexander N. Sørnes

> Zachary Goldberg wrote:
> > On Jan 15, 2008 9:58 AM, Ian Macfarlane <ian at ianmacfarlane.com> wrote:
> >> At the bottom of each WWN issue (for example, the latest
> >> http://www.winehq.org/?issue=339) is the text:
> >>
> >> "All Kernel Cousin issues and summaries are copyright their original
> >> authors, and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
> >> License, version 2.0. "
> >>
> >> However, it links to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt which of
> >> course is now the GPLv3 license text.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the text should change to say version 3 (or perhaps version
> >> 2+), or to the old archived GPLv2 license (IMO the former two options
> >> are preferable).
> >
> > for the record: I have no personal preference on the license.
> > Whatever the WineHQ admins decide on the issue is fine with me.





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