[Fedora-legal-list] License question

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 09/21/2010 03:08 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Spot - could you comment on this? 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636250
> 
> Source files have the following preamble:
> 
>      HotEqn is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>      the Free Software Foundation;
>      HotEqn is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>      GNU General Public License for more details.
>      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>      along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> 
> The gpl.txt file included in the package is of version 3 of the license, but 
> the preamble doesn't state a version.  Is this okay?

It's okay, but if no version is specified in the code or corresponding
documentation (note: _NOT_ COPYING), then it is GPL+.

~spot