licence tag questions

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Aug 22 07:21:01 UTC 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:11:21AM +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote:
> I'm updating the License tag in the spec file of my packages. 
> 
> Checking the source files of 'recode' I found the following licenses:
> mostly GPLv2+, LGPLv2+, and in some files GNU Library General Public 
> License. 
> According to gnu.org the GNU Library General Public License has been 
> succeeded by the GNU Lesser General Public License. 
> 
> What should I use in the License tag??

GNU Lesser General Public License is a name of the license that was
introduced for LGPL2.1, before that (e.g. LGPL2) it was called
GNU Library General Public License.  I think in License: we aren't supposed
to differentiate between LGPL2 and LGPL2.1, so both licenses
are to be tagged with LGPLv2 resp. LGPLv2+, depending on if they allow
any later version or not.

	Jakub




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