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License boilerplate text


vincele

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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 ?

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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...

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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... ;-)

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