Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] checklicenses.py

[João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/08/2016 06:42 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Is there some reason not to treat "you can license this under the BSD license or under the GPL" as an acceptable license?
> >
> > Please review https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/16957/.
>
> That's still special-casing the dual-licensed files; any reason not to just treat it as an acceptable license by adding "BSD (3 clause) GPL (v2)" to WHITELISTED_LICENSES?

Repeating what I said in the Gerrit change (this is just my 
understanding of course):

There's a difference between "choose license A or B" and "this code is 
license A and that addition is license B".

We don't want to whitelist BSD + GPLv2, i.e, a BSD licensed file with a 
GPLv2 contribution, because it would be incompatible with GPLv3 code.