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

[Mike Watters]

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Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from William Bonnet's message of Mon Mar 16 15:02:12 -0400 2009:
>> IMHO we should choose a license for the materials we deliver.
>>
>> Any thoughts ?
> 
> I'm in the GPL camp (2 or 3, either is fine with me).
> 
> -Ben
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FWIW
	+1 for GPL 2 or 3

IANAL so not sure how it actually works, but I think if the "base" license is GPL2, the maintainer's
patches and scripts can be either GPL v2 or v3 or later, their Choice "I believe."

whereas if the license for the base is GPL v3 then the maintainer's additions must be GPL v3 or later.
any source code patch would fall under the license of the original source "I think"

please correct me if I am way off base here.

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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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