License boilerplate text

[vincele]

Hello,

 

while reading the build tools scripts I found this part of the license text to be fishy:

# This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
# License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
# warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.

I think the intent was to say "whether expressed or implied".

 

Can I get confirmation, so I can prepare a PR for changing all the (cut'n'pasted) occurrences ?

[arox]

Well, I rather think it should be : The program is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.

[vincele]

So you'd rather keep the "express warranty" (I can't understand what that would mean, care to explain it to me ?) and change "This" into "The" ?

Thanks, I'm not a native english speaker so I may be completely wrong about this, which is why I asked...

[Igor]

If we find better words, just go, I have no objections & if you are already started to make changes to this part, than add this (planned) change:

# Copyright (c) 2015 Igor Pecovnik, igor.pecovnik@gma**.com

# Copyright (c) Authors: http://www.armbian.com/authors

[vincele]

Will do, if we get consensus from native english speakers

[zador.blood.stained]

Will do, if we get consensus from native english speakers

We don't have to, there are standard boilerplate texts to copy-paste from, i.e. here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html in section "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs"

[vincele]

Yep, I searched a bit before asking, and looking at the fsf/gnu license help, but as I didn't find the same text I assumed armbian having chosen this specific wording on purpose...

 

Changing a word to be "better english" (if I'm not mistaken about that express warranty" wording) is not really the same as changing license text (removing a part that can be legally important) and would need approval by all copyright holders of each file.

 

The former I'd do, the latter I'll pass... ;-)