[Bug 468003] Review Request: qmtest - an automated software test execution tool.

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--- Comment #20 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2008-12-11 15:15:22 EDT ---
Stefan, would you mind reading the rest of the COPYING file?  Down where in
term 9 it says:

If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may
choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

This is where the whole issue comes from.  You cannot just say "Look at the
COPYING file".  Well, you can, but that file is rather explicit in saying that
then someone who wishes to distribute the software can choose GPLv1 if they
want.  The FSF is really clear that every source file needs to contain a
specific block of text indicating, among other things, the license version in
use.

Now, there's a whole procedure to go through in determining the intent of the
author if they have chosen for some reason to leave off those blocks of text. 
Upstream web sites can be used assuming that we can establish that they are
authoried by the same entity which authored the software.  But that's really a
case-by-case thing that the legal folks need to look at.

Isn't it just simpler to include an actual statement of the license version?

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