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

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:09:09 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:


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I think the "gpl.txt" is obsolete, the "COPYING" file should be used instead.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.


I have replaced it in the .nsi file, and it seems to work well.
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?)


We have other files like Readme.win32, which have the same effect.
They are installed, but not available through the GUI.
I thought it's a good idea to install this text in the program dir, and not only showing it while installing.
It might also be helpful to include this text somewhere in the help, but I didn't had that in mind. 



Another thing: The license text has at the end a section with the title:
"How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs"
Should this be removed from the file, as this is a small introduction, how to apply this text to new programs (which is already done)? 

Regards, ULFL