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Re: A darcs that can pull from git

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 00:55 UTC
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
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> Linus, could you please suggest a suitable license statement to
> include in whichever files of yours we choose to include in Darcs?  Is
> David's suggestion (stock GPL boilerplate with ``or any later
> version'' removed) okay with you?
Stock GNU boilerplate without the "or any later version" works fine.

As does a simple one-liner "Licensed under GPLv2", for that matter. It's not like there can be any real confusion.

		Linus
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  1. Juliusz ChroboczekApr 24, 2005
  2. David RoundyApr 25, 2005
  3. Juliusz ChroboczekApr 25, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  5. David RoundyApr 26, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisApr 26, 2005
  7. David RoundyApr 26, 2005

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