conflicting license statements

[onlyjob]

I've noticed that some files have conflicting license statements. For instance the header of file scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Trigger/Channel.pm claims GPL-2+ but in the end of the same file I found the following statement:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Please clarify whether such .pm files are double-licensed or if only one particular license applies.

All .pm files in scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Trigger are affected, some in scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Control as well as all *.pm and *.pm.in in scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder.

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[knight-of-ni]

@kylejohnson can you get a hold of Phil and see what he thinks about this one?

[web2wire]

I'm happy to put everything on the same licence, probably GPL3 nowadays. I suspect the perl ones just had whatever I found in similar modules from elsewhere.

[onlyjob]

So at the moment some Perl components (modules and scripts where Perl license is mentioned) are dual-licensed but we can upgrade to GPL-3+ (version 3 or above), right?

Since everything is already under GPL-2+ I suppose it already includes GPL-3+...

If everyone agrees we can just drop Perl license statements or (in case we choose to preserve dual-licensing) move them towards the beginning of files...

[SteveGilvarry]

Review and fix all licenses

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