macchanger 1.6.0 lost copying information

[thoger]

macchanger update form 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 removes COPYING file that contains licensing information. There's also no license information in the README, so one has to look into all source to find out.

Both GNU and downstream vendor packaging guidelines strongly encourage inclusion of the license text:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Releases.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License_Text

Please consider mentioning license in the README explicitly, in addition to re-adding COPYING, given that current license is GPLv2 or later.

[alobbs]

That was unintentional. macchanger 1.7.0 ought to ship the COPYING file again.

[alobbs]

f4f66e1 fixed it.

[thoger]

The commits adds GPL 3 text to COPYING, while all source files keep saying GPL 2 or later. Is this intentional re-license to be GPL 3+?

[alobbs]

Yes, it is, indeed. GNU MAC Changer should be distributed under the GPLv3+ from now on.

[thoger]

Thank you for the clarification!

[dpaleino]

It would be best if this was fixed in the source files too ;)