[Buildroot] [V4 1/1] python-mutagen: new package

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:15:52 +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>
>> This is the stuff I still don't really grok. How do I tell whether it
>> is GPLv2 or GPLv2+?
>>
>> This passage [1] contains such a sentence:
>>
>> "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
>
> Have you read this part of the license? It is an *example* of what you
> can put in the header of your files to indicate what the license is.
>
> So this part of the license is an *example*, it does not tell you at
> all what is the license that applies to this package.
>
> To know whether it's GPLv2 or GPLv2+ you have to open an actual source
> file, and look at its copyright header. If it says "version 2 or
> later", then it's GPLv2+. If it says "version 2", then it's GPLv2 only.
>
> If you look at the mutagen source code, all source files I could see
> mention just "version 2", hence GPLv2.
>
> Please read again the text of the GPL around the line you indicated.
> You will understand better what it means.

I see now. Thanks for your explanations.

Yegor