vincele Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arox Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Well, I rather think it should be : The program is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincele Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincele Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 Will do, if we get consensus from native english speakers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zador.blood.stained Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Will do, if we get consensus from native english speakersWe 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincele Posted September 18, 2016 Author Share Posted September 18, 2016 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... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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