GPL-2-only is an alternative license

[bkmgit]

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[bkmgit]

May help with #116

[rdmark]

thank you for the suggestion!

I believe the original intention by @msteinert when he created this fork was to use BSD 3-clause only for the project as a whole, meaning that files that are fully original for this fork (e.g. the build system files) are BSD only and not GPL. Therefore I don't think we shouldn't make the proposed change.

OTOH adding a blurb to the README clarifying the licensing background of the C source code by Paul Hsieh is probably advisable since this question will keep coming up.

Would love to hear Mike's opinion also if he reads this!

[bkmgit]

GPL license should be distributed with GPL code. Indicating that the new portions are under BSD-3-Clause and not under either BSD-3-Clause or GPL-2-only in the README would be helpful.

As this can be quite complicated to do on a file to file level, ensuring that code passes the following tools maybe helpful:

• https://reuse.software/
• https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/stable/