[dm-devel] multipath-tools licenses (was Re: [PATCH] multipath-tools: replace FSF address with a www pointer)

[Martin Wilck]

On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 23:42 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 03/26/2018 02:36 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> 
> > It'd be a good idea to upgrade generally from "Library GPL v2" at
> > least
> > to LGPLv2.1. That shouldn't be a problem, as the only major
> > differerence between LGPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 is the addition of §6b in
> > the
> > latter, allowing the use of "a suitable shared library mechanism
> > for
> > linking with the library".
> 
> Yes, LGPLv2.1 is LGPLv2.0 plus §6b:

Thanks for confirming. I used "wdiff" for comparing the two texts, that
makes it even easier to verify that the differences are few.

Martin

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