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License header in source files query #98

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@kathenas

Hi Daniel,

All source files have the below header.

!-----------------------------------------------------------------
!
!  This file is (or was) part of SPLASH, a visualisation tool
!  for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics written by Daniel Price:
!
!  http://users.monash.edu.au/~dprice/splash
!
!  SPLASH comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
!  This is free software; and you are welcome to redistribute
!  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
!  (see LICENSE file for details) and the provision that
!  this notice remains intact. If you modify this file, please
!  note section 2a) of the GPLv2 states that:
!
!  a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
!     stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
!
!  Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Daniel Price. All rights reserved.
!  Contact: daniel.price@monash.edu
!
!-----------------------------------------------------------------

The Debian licenserecon tool (lrc is the command).

Below is a small part of the output.

philwyett@ks-tarkin:~/Builder/splash$ lrc
en: Versions: licenserecon '6.0'  licensecheck '3.3.9-1'

Parsing Source Tree  ....
Reading d/copyright  ....
Running licensecheck ....

d/copyright      | licensecheck

GPL-2+           | GPL-2             LICENCE
GPL-2+           | GPL               src/adjust_data.f90
GPL-2+           | GPL               src/allocate.f90
GPL-2+           | GPL               src/analysis.f90

Could the header be made more clear as to license version?

Regards

Phil

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