[flashrom] What's the intended license for flashrom?

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at gmx.at
Fri Jan 26 23:43:18 CET 2018


On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:51:46 +0100
Nico Huber <nico.h at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I've just noticed that most of flashrom is licensed under GPLv2 + any
> later version, while about a third of the code base is GPLv2 only.
> I wonder if that is intentional, or if any of the license headers was
> just copy pasted and spread too much?

Hi,

using GPLv2 code in a GPLv2+ project is perfectly fine:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#compat-matrix-footnote-2
Not sure about the "spread factor" but there are certainly *some* parts
that are GPLv2 so there is not much incentive to look further IMHO...
-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner



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