Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Win32: GPL license file

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:39:03 -0800
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> I'm just wondering, of the GPL license file.
> 
> One version is in the root dir "COPYING"
> Another one is in packaging/nsis and named gpl.txt
> 
> I think the "gpl.txt" is obsolete, the "COPYING" file should be used 
> instead.

The only difference between them appears to be that COPYING has lines
that end with LF (UNIX-style) and GPL.txt has lines that end with CR-LF
(Windows-style) - as long as the NSIS installer properly handles a
license that's a UNIX-style text file, using COPYING is probably the
right thing to do.

> This file will also not be installed to the destination. Should this 
> file be installed?

It's not actually used by Ethereal, so I'm not sure what installing it
would do.  (Should there be a "License" item under "Help", that displays
the GPL text?)