LICENSE.txt gets added automatically by the Drupal.org packaging script, so shouldn't be included in the Git repository in any of your branches.

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CZ commented
Category: bug » task

This is not a bug.

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CZ commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

A COPYING or LICENSE file with the GPL text[1] should be included in a GPL program.

"You should also include a copy of the license itself somewhere in the distribution of your program. All programs, whether they are released under the GPL or LGPL, should include the text version of the GPL. In GNU programs the license is usually in a file called COPYING." [2].

So I can not delete the license file. The way of downloading (terminal or browser) is not critical.

[1] www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

[2] www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html

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tr commented

It's really not a matter for interpretation. The entire Drupal repository is licensed under a uniform license, and individual projects should not store license information in the project's repository. That's always been the rule in Drupal, and if you look at other projects you'll see that literally 99% of the 10,000+ projects hosted in the Drupal repository follow this rule. The fewer than 100 projects that don't, like this one, are wrong.

Distributions of Drupal modules have the correct license attached automatically, which you can verify by looking in any of the .tar.gz archives available for download from your project page. The license file in those archives is the Drupal standard license file (look at the creation date!) which REPLACED your license file. Your license file DOESN'T get distributed, it gets overwritten by the Drupal standard.

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CZ commented

The contributed modules on drupal.org are not part of Drupal "Drupal repository" (witch have a license file). I am not happy about the Drupal.org packaging script, because for example the themebuilder module is licensed under GPLv3 and not GPLv2.

This is not a "bug" (or issue) of Text Size module or Page Style, this is a "bug" or "issue" of the Drupal.org packaging script. Please stop the adding of wrong "bugs".

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tr commented

Correction - contributed modules on drupal.org ARE part of the Drupal repository. That's the point.

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CZ commented

No. Contributed modules (the name say it) are not part of "Drupal" or the "drupal repository" ("project/drupal"), if so, they are in the core of Drupal. Contributed modules are hosted on drupal.org like GitHub, but drupal.org is not the (project) CMS Drupal.