[development] Modules that integrate non-GPL PHP apps violate the GPL.

[Peter Wolanin]

Ok - enough talk - in Drupal things should be solved with patches ;-)

Here's a patch to at least add the standard copyright statement from
GPL 2.0 to the Drupal HEAD index.php file.  right now since none of
the source files have such a notice to even make it clear that they
are GPl licensed:

http://drupal.org/node/174226



On 9/9/07, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Angela,
>
> this text describes the copyright statement that *should* be in all
> the source files.  As far as I can tell, since none of the files
> actually specify the version of the license tht applies, we're in a
> bit of a muddle.
>
> -Peter
>
> On 9/9/07, Angela Byron <drupal-devel at webchick.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 9-Sep-07, at 10:42 AM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> >
> > >> IMO, you already have because of the "any future version" clause.
> > >
> > > Which can be found exactly where..? Drupal tarball is distributed
> > > with the GPL v2, the contributions FAQ link to the GPL v2 and
> > > however hard I seek I can't find a single mention of that.
> >
> > It's written in LICENSE.txt:
> >
> > "    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > modify
> >      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> > published by
> >      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> >      (at your option) ***any later version***.
> > "
> >
>