Re: Purpose of licensing info


Peter Williams <peter.williams@...>
 

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Peterson, Scott K (HP Legal)
<scott.k.peterson@...> wrote:

(3)

In the file:

“See COPYING” [where the COPYING file is a copy of the GPL]

Metadata:

asserted license: GPL-2.0

license information in file: “See COPYING”
Are we going to define the mechanism for deciding if a bit of text
that is not a standard header is a licensing statement? Or is it just
the best effort of the producer?

Peter

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