From d7698673759c6aee7b9447fd14b161406321c5ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Wheeler" Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:58:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Clearly document the license (GPLv2+) --- README | 2 ++ flawfinder | 5 +++-- flawfinder.1 | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 0c2fd89..45a8d5f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ For more information, see: http://www.dwheeler.com/flawfinder See INSTALL.txt for installation instructions. +It is released under the GNU GPL license version 2 or later (GPLv2+). + diff --git a/flawfinder b/flawfinder index c95a932..5ad8bc0 100755 --- a/flawfinder +++ b/flawfinder @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ version="1.31" # # Currently this program can only analyze C/C++ code. # -# Copyright (C) 2001-2014 David A. Wheeler -# This is released under the General Public License (GPL): +# Copyright (C) 2001-2014 David A. Wheeler. +# This is released under the +# GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later (GPLv2+): # # 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 diff --git a/flawfinder.1 b/flawfinder.1 index 5b4ac37..a1977c3 100644 --- a/flawfinder.1 +++ b/flawfinder.1 @@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ The summary ends with important reminders: Not every hit is necessarily a security vulnerability, and there may be other security vulnerabilities not reported by the tool. .PP +Flawfinder is released under the GNU GPL license version 2 or later (GPLv2+). +.PP Flawfinder works similarly to another program, ITS4, which is not fully open source software (as defined in the Open Source Definition) nor free software (as defined by the Free Software Foundation).