[java-gnome-hackers] Adding COPYING file to the tarball

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

As mentioned on the -developer list, I've taken care of a niggling todo
item, which is to add full "GPL" headers to our source files, and the
"Classpath Exception" blurb to those files that are part of the
resultant library .jar & .so.

I already discussed this with our downstream Debian and Gentoo
packagers, but no one needs to freak out that we changed the licence or
something. It's still what it's been all along: java-gnome is made
available by its authors under the terms of the GNU General Public
Licence version 2, with the exception that you are allowed to link to
the library without triggering the GPL so long as you haven't changed
the library itself as released - if you have, the GPL applies.

This is the same licence that GNU Classpath's glibj was released under,
and was what Sun chose when they freed their Java implementatio as
OpenJDK.

Like I said, no change. Just a lot more verbose gunk in the file
headers :)

Now if we can just get Ohloh to stop choking when reading our repo...

AfC
Sydney


On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:00 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 14:20 +0100, Alexander Boström wrote:

> > COPYING
> 
> yeah yeah :)
> 
> As it happens, I've just redone the copyright headers for another
> project of mine so that Ohloh will recognize it as GPL v2. I'll be doing
> the same thing over the next few days to java-gnome, presumably with the
> classpath exception text
> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/faq/faq.html#faq2_1 as well for
> the distributed part of the library.
> 
> And yes, I'll include a COPYING file. :)