Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Licensing of tools/html2text.py

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 03:40:59PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
> Good point - PIDL is already mentioned at the top of COPYING in this way.

I know :-)

> Now the question becomes, are we legally required to list *all*
> additional licenses in COPYING, or only when the license itself
> requires it? There are currently a couple of licenses which we carry
> but aren't listed in COPYING, in addition to GPLv3 (html2text.py) and
> GPLv3+ (PIDL) which is mentioned but not included.

For me it's not really a matter of "legally required" but a matter of politeness.
So while all the "real" source files require a GPLv2(+) compatible license I don't
mind adding a paragraph like this:
The following source files contain code not covered by but compatible with the
GNU General Public License version 2:
<list of files>

Ciao
      Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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