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I just mail the original author, waiting for the reply. |
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I am the original author, Yu-Chun Wang. ibus-array was released under GPL v2. Please help correct the COPYING file and the headers of sources. Thanks very much. |
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@mainlander, which did you prefer ibus-array's original code to be GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-2.0-only? |
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I prefer GPL-2.0-or-later. Many thanks. |
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@mainlander Thanks for the reply. There are still a few contributors to contact: |
Yes, since I submitted the PR in the first place, I agree with merging my PR in order to resolve the issue. ;-) I would not call it "re-licensing", per se, because the the original author @mainlander has ALWAYS intended to use GPL-2.0-or-later since the intial commit in 2009. This is especially clearly stated in ibus-array.spec.in https://github.com/lexical/ibus-array/blob/5a2b59e2c702a3099bd8ff26ae866d10bf9104f7/ibus-array.spec.in where it says
OBATA Akio contributed two commits: Commit 8c062b2:
Commit 8f00cfb:
Commit: 65c926b
So, from the point of view of these contributors, they are not seeing any kind of license change or confusion, thus I think there is really no need to contact them for their consent. |
* Fix COPYING, should be GPL-2.0-or-later * Fix FSF address in source file headers
There appear to be some conflicting information about ibus-array's licensing:
With the above information, I think we can infer that Yu-Chun Wang originally intended the project to be licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later, but goofed when he placed a GPL-3.0-or-later COPYING file by mistake, hence this PR to fix COPYING and to update FSF address.