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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ahh yes, that is right. He wrote:

" *) The project has SoftPLC Corporation's permission to re-license its
copyrights under GPL3."

The email should be easy to find of needed.
Den 20/02/2015 12.10 skrev "Javier Serrano" <javier.serrano.pareja@xxxxxxxxx
>:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Regarding the GPL stuff, see:
> >
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers/kicad/product/view/head:/COPYRIGHT.txt
> >
> > Especially the top.
>
> That text at the top should be changed (probably just erased) because
> it is in contradiction with all the GPL2+ and GPL3+ headers in the
> sources. I believe Dick agreed to it before leaving. I wonder if we
> even need a COPYRIGHT.txt file at all. Right now it just brings
> confusion. All source files contain headers which clearly indicate
> their license.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Javier
>