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

From: João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 19:00:37 +0100


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.