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Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py
From: Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 15:40:59 -0500
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:11:02AM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:It appears to be licensed under GPLv3 only, which makes it incompatible for us to include. It seems to be included only because links/lynx didn't appear to work a while ago when building under WIndows. If that is no longer true then I think we can just remove it with no loss of functionality? Other suggestions, alternatives, etc welcome of course.If I understand it correctly, this tool is only used during the build process. As long as it doesn't effect the license of its output and is not installed as part of the binary package, I don't see a problem in using it during the build process or including it in the source distribution. We have to make sure its license is correctly mentioned in our COPYING file.
Good point - PIDL is already mentioned at the top of COPYING in this way. 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. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Licensing of tools/html2text.py Evan Huus (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Bálint Réczey (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Evan Huus (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Gerald Combs (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Evan Huus (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Joerg Mayer (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Evan Huus (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Joerg Mayer (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Evan Huus (Nov 03)
- Re: Licensing of tools/html2text.py Bálint Réczey (Nov 03)