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

[Joerg Schilling]

Mike Watters <mwatters at opencsw.org> wrote:

> 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"

The makefiles in question are not part of "the work" but only part of "the 
complete source" (which is more than "the work"). For any part that is beyond 
"the work", there is no license requirement in the GPL.

Jörg

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