[csw-maintainers] License for makefiles and other packages component

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Mon Mar 16 23:06:41 CET 2009


Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> > As there is more than one license in the world, you cannot have  
> > everything
> > under the same license. Also please note that GPLv3 and GPLv3 are  
> > incompatibile
> > to each other.
>
> Hugh? Do you mean GPLv2 and GPLv3?

Of course ;-)

> > If you like to mention a license for the makefiles, it is rather  
> > important
> > to make sure that the license used for the files alloes to  
> > redistribute, to
> > change and to redistribute changed files.
>
> Isn't this true for e. g. all GPL-licenses?

This is true for any license that was aproved by opensource.org.

Jörg

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