Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Add GPL Cooperation Commitment #3445

Merged
merged 1 commit into from Jan 24, 2019

Conversation

richardfontana
Copy link
Contributor

Red Hat has been leading a campaign to encourage GPLv2 and LGPLv2.x projects to adopt the GPL Cooperation Commitment (GPLCC). GPLCC supplements GPLv2 with the cure and repose provisions of GPLv3. GPLv2 by default features an "automatic termination" provision which is commonly seen as causing immediate termination of the license upon any noncompliance with no opportunity to correct the error. The cure and repose provisions of GPLv3 (1) give first-time violators 30 days to fix noncompliance and (2) automatically restore the license 60 days after the noncompliance stops, if no copyright holder notifies you of the violation during that time period. The project version of GPLCC operates prospectively, so it can be adopted by a project even if there are past GPLv2 contributors who have not agreed to it.

We believe GPLCC promotes greater fairness and predictability in the enforcement of GPLv2 and LGPLv2.x licenses. This PR adds the project version of GPLCC to the repository.

@stamparm
Copy link
Member

stamparm commented Jan 24, 2019

https://opensource.com/article/18/11/gpl-cooperation-commitment?utm_campaign=intrel

The GPL Cooperation Commitment applies the GPLv3's cure provisions to GPLv2-licensed
software, thereby protecting licensees of GPLv2 code from the automatic termination of their
license, consistent with the protections afforded by the GPLv3.

p.s. I don't see any added value than the current "open source" trend, though, it won't hurt the sqlmap. Important note: LICENSE doesn't change

@stamparm stamparm merged commit 78da395 into sqlmapproject:master Jan 24, 2019
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

None yet

2 participants