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[PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum

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Message #29 received at 31307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 31307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit
 from Boum
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 15:26:14 -0400

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On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 02:37:34PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Upstream clarified in an email [1] that the license is GPLv2.  Also,
> they did explicitly remove the "or any later version" part in the
> README.md file; I just missed that detail at first.  However, there is
> no license embedded in the source files themselves.  In this case, is is
> correct to add this package as GPLv2?

My understanding as a non-expert is that the "or later" is always at the
discretion of the author. So GPLv2 without "or later" is GPLv2, and
that's how we can distribute it.

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