[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] multipath-tools: move COPYING to COPYING.LESSER

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 03/28/2018 12:03 AM, Martin Wilck wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 20:28 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> As recommended by FSF: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>>
>> Cc: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui at opensvc.com>
>> Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  COPYING => COPYING.LESSER | 0
>>  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  rename COPYING => COPYING.LESSER (100%)
>>
>> diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING.LESSER
>> similarity index 100%
>> rename from COPYING
>> rename to COPYING.LESSER
> 
> IMO you should only call it "COPYING.LESSER" if it's really the lesser
> GPL (aka LGPLv2.1).

LESSER is just the family of the licence, a tag.

COPYING.LIBRARY is really a very bad name. But if Christophe see
an objection to the "COPYING.LESSER" name, it could be rename to COPYING.LGPL