Re-license python-mms under GPL-2

Alex Chiang · Alex Chiang · commit 072d0ea15e4e · 2011-08-26T10:50:57.000-06:00
Section 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1,
states:

	3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
	General Public License instead of this License to a given
	copy of the Library. To do this, you must alter all the
	notices that refer to this License, so that they refer to
	the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2, instead
	of to this License. (If a newer version than version 2 of
	the ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then
	you can specify that version instead if you wish.) Do not
	make any other change in these notices.

	Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible
	for that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License
	applies to all subsequent copies and derivative works made
	from that copy.

	This option is useful when you wish to copy part of the code
	of the Library into a program that is not a library.

Since the rest of python-messaging is licensed under the GPL-2, we
will apply section 3 of the LGPL-2.1 and re-license python-mms
under GPL-2.

Previous attempts to contact the original author were unsuccessful.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@canonical.com&gt;
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
diff --git a/messaging/mms/__init__.py b/messaging/mms/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# This library is free software, distributed under the terms of
-# the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.
+# This library is free software.
+#
+# It was originally distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License Version 2.
+#
+# python-messaging opts to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
+# General Public License v2, as permitted by section 3 of the LGPL
+# v2.1. This re-licensing allows the entirety of python-messaging to
+# be distributed according to the terms of GPL-2.
+#
 # See the COPYING file included in this archive
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2007 Francois Aucamp <faucamp@csir.co.za>
@@ -32,7 +40,7 @@
 
 @version: 0.2
 @author: Francois Aucamp C{<faucamp@csir.co.za>}
-@license: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
+@license: GNU General Public License, version 2
 @note: References used in the code and this document:
 
 .. [1] MMS Conformance Document version 2.0.0, 6 February 2002
diff --git a/messaging/mms/iterator.py b/messaging/mms/iterator.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# This library is free software, distributed under the terms of
-# the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.
+# This library is free software.
+#
+# It was originally distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License Version 2.
+#
+# python-messaging opts to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
+# General Public License v2, as permitted by section 3 of the LGPL
+# v2.1. This re-licensing allows the entirety of python-messaging to
+# be distributed according to the terms of GPL-2.
+#
 # See the COPYING file included in this archive
 #
 # The docstrings in this module contain epytext markup; API documentation
diff --git a/messaging/mms/message.py b/messaging/mms/message.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# This library is free software, distributed under the terms of
-# the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.
+# This library is free software.
+#
+# It was originally distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License Version 2.
+#
+# python-messaging opts to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
+# General Public License v2, as permitted by section 3 of the LGPL
+# v2.1. This re-licensing allows the entirety of python-messaging to
+# be distributed according to the terms of GPL-2.
+#
 # See the COPYING file included in this archive
 #
 # The docstrings in this module contain epytext markup; API documentation
diff --git a/messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py b/messaging/mms/mms_pdu.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# This library is free software, distributed under the terms of
-# the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.
+# This library is free software.
+#
+# It was originally distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License Version 2.
+#
+# python-messaging opts to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
+# General Public License v2, as permitted by section 3 of the LGPL
+# v2.1. This re-licensing allows the entirety of python-messaging to
+# be distributed according to the terms of GPL-2.
+#
 # See the COPYING file included in this archive
 """MMS Data Unit structure encoding and decoding classes"""
 
diff --git a/messaging/mms/wsp_pdu.py b/messaging/mms/wsp_pdu.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# This library is free software, distributed under the terms of
-# the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.
+# This library is free software.
+#
+# It was originally distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License Version 2.
+#
+# python-messaging opts to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
+# General Public License v2, as permitted by section 3 of the LGPL
+# v2.1. This re-licensing allows the entirety of python-messaging to
+# be distributed according to the terms of GPL-2.
+#
 # See the COPYING file included in this archive
 #
 # The docstrings in this module contain epytext markup; API documentation
