Evil fedora package & license issue

Mon Jul 30 15:13:53 CEST 2012

On 2012-07-30, Sébastien Willmann <sebastien.willmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've created a rpm package for fedora. The review request is here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D844173
>
> It seems that only evil.el contains license information. This may be a
> problem for sources redistribution. Could you put license information
> to all source files, and add the whole license in a separated file?

I've prepared the changes, but one question arises. Evil now contains
some code snippets stolen from other sources, usually from GNU Emacs
itself (I know this because I've been the thief ;)). These files are
usually distributed under GPLv3 whereas Evil still has GPLv2. For
correctness we should therefore upgrade the licensing to GPLv3, too.
Is there any problem with this (I ask all contributors)? (Otherwise
I'll simple change the "2" to a "3" in the license comments).

Frank